In describing the suffering of the people of Israel in Egypt,
in the Book of Exodus, we read that ‘the Israelites groaned in
their slavery and cried out, and God heard their groaning
and he remembered his covenant with Abraham,
with Isaac and with Jacob.’ In these days, my dear ones,
we are all praying, separately but together,
young and old, secular and religious, for the better days ahead.
We all ask (God) ‘remember the covenant of our forefathers’.
Happy Feast of Passover my dear ones.
To next year, together; together in Jerusalem.
The nation of Israel lives.
Because the workers cross from here (our land) a lot with
permits and without permits and mostly without, we are
volunteering to take care of their health and to check them but they
are escaping from the emergency committee that checks them
and from the security forces, this one of the routes they
are using to sneak through.
The authorities make us feel calm because there are no coronavirus
cases among people in Gaza, the infected ones are
in quarantine as they come from abroad.
You will not see (an empty market) until there is a curfew,
this is the best way for the Arab world.
If we have to take a decision about imposing a curfew we
will not hesitate and we have a plan ready for curfew to totally
restrict movement in the Gaza Strip.
Our plan is ready but we are taking the necessary
decisions in accordance with our daily evaluation.
We confirm that doing tests in Gaza at the central laboratory stopped
after coronavirus testing kits completely ran out throughout Gaza.
Dozens of samples are awaiting to be tested.
The lack of coronavirus testing kits represents a new challenge
for the ministry of health in confronting the pandemic,
and would influence the release of hundreds
of people in quarantine facilities.