(Christian Science Monitor) Joshua Mitnick - The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted how Israel and the Palestinian areas in the West Bank are in fact one unit in the battle to preserve public health. COVID-19 tests from Palestinians were sent to laboratories at Israel's Sheba Hospital for analysis because such lab facilities don't exist in the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority is enforcing its own closure on Bethlehem to prevent the virus from spreading to other cities in the West Bank.
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