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Raising kids in Gaza was hard enough. Then came a lockdown within the lockdown.

Editor Washington Post September 12, 2020

There would be nowhere to go if they did wake up. For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, all 2 million Gazans are in home quarantine to slow a growing outbreak. Our movements are always restricted within Gaza’s 140 square miles, bound by the Mediterranean on one side, fenced in by the Israeli army on another. But now, as the jets strike outside for the 20th straight night, we cannot even leave our houses.

We are stuck in a lockdown within a lockdown.

For months, we’d recorded only about 100 coronavirus cases in Gaza, all among residents returning from the outside and who were immediately quarantined. But on Aug. 24, the first cases of unknown origin were reported, in the tightly packed Maghazi refugee camp, and Gaza was placed under a complete lockdown that very same night. Since then, we’ve recorded more than 1,400 local cases.

It is beautiful to be a parent. But in Gaza it is also especially difficult. This has been true since …continued .
[Source: Washington Post]

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