...Sobhi Samour The situation of West Bank Palestinians working in Israel has highlighted a number of parallels with the conditions of global labor employed in essential sectors during the Covid-19 pandemic. Under capitalism, the compulsion to work, ostensibly to cultivate life, comes at the risk...

...Osama Tanous This essay explores representations of Palestinian physicians in the Israeli health-care system during the Covid-19 pandemic and the dynamics that have played out in that system during the public health emergency from the perspective of a Palestinian physician. It argues...

... that has been accelerated by Covid-19 on the erasure of structures of violence, including those of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, within the discipline of epidemiology. Using public health as an analytic, this essay asks us to consider foundational questions that have long been sidelined...

..., women, and children being held—many in so-called administrative detention, without trial or charge—during the Covid-19 pandemic. Part reportage and part cri de coeur, this testimonial touches on the most immediate and existential aspects of imprisonment for Palestinians in Israeli prisons: poor sanitary...

...Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh How are refugees responding to protect themselves and others in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic? How do these responses relate to diverse local, national, and international structures of inequality and marginalization? Drawing on the case of Beddawi camp in North Lebanon...

...Ghassan Abu-Sittah This essay explores the challenges and opportunities that the Covid-19 pandemic has afforded Israel as it broadens its settler-colonial objectives internally, in Gaza, and elsewhere. In particular, it sheds light on the heightened militaristic and economic approaches taken...

... This sample of photos from 16 February–15 May 2020 aims to convey a sense of Palestinian life during this quarter. The images capture Ramadan and Land Day celebrations, protests, labor, and leisure amid the Covid-19 global pandemic. © 2020 by the Institute for Palestine Studies. All rights...

... and have been selected because they either have gone viral or represent a significant cultural moment or trend. Stories from this quarter (16 February–15 May 2020) are influenced by the Covid-19 global pandemic. In light of the health threat, Nakba Day protests go virtual and Gaza receives global public...