News stories by Laila Barhoum

  1. A Free & Accessible Vaccine is Just out of Reach for Palestinians

    - Inter Press Service

    GAZA, Apr 29 (IPS) - We were able to keep the coronavirus at bay for five months in Gaza, the densely populated Palestinian strip of land surrounded by Israel that I call home. But the Coronavirus doesn’t respect walls or artificial borders. While preparations were made for the pandemic to inevitably breach a blockade so few Palestinians can, we waited for it to come for us. And it did.

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