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April 20, 2020

Palestinian Leaders Rush to Accuse Israel of Exacerbating Their Coronavirus Woes

While refusing to divert funds from terrorism.

Since late March, Palestinian Authority (PA) spokesmen and official news outlets have been claiming that Jerusalem has deliberately spread COVID-19 in the West Bank, and that it has interfered with Palestinian efforts to contain the spread of the virus and treat those infected. Officials in the Gaza Strip have made similar assertions. These claims are patently false. But, though Israel is not at fault, Sander Gerber writes, both the Hamas regime and, to a lesser extent, the PA, are woefully unprepared to deal with the burgeoning health crisis:

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