Israeli Apartheid Undermines Palestinian Right to Health Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
Date: 7 April 2020
This year we mark World Health Day as the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to sweep
across the globe, disproportionately impacting those subjected to situations of institutionalised
oppression, discrimination, and injustice. For the Palestinian people, COVID-19 has brought to the
forefront Israel’s apartheid regime of systematic racial domination and oppression over all Palestinians, 1
which for decades has led to the fragmentation and de-development of the healthcare system of the
occupied Palestinian territory, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, 2 and denied Palestinians the right to
the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. 3
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