Israel’s devastating 13-year siege of the Gaza Strip is intensifying the coronavirus crisis in the Palestinian enclave, threatening the lives of its nearly two million inhabitants, a new study warns.
In a report released on Wednesday, a group of international researchers described “challenges over access to healthcare and other essential resources, as well as the economic toll the virus has placed on individuals and their families”, a statement said.
The study focused on the spread of public health information about COVID-19, the measures taken to curb its spread, as well as the socioeconomic impact of the pandemic.
More than 70 individuals from different locations in Gaza participated in the study, Mohammed al-Ruzzi, a research fellow from the University of Bath and member of the research team, told Al Jazeera.
27 Jan in 12:20
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis to the post of Secretary General of the Assembly, the first woman to hold the post in the Assembly’s 72-year history, according to the Organization.
She will serve for a five-year term starting on 1 March 2021. The election took place by electronic voting, with a very large participation rate of 96.46%.
Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis has been working for 21 years with and for parliamentarians from all over Europe in the Parliamentary Assembly, leading, in turn, its Monitoring and Political Affairs Committees. She started her career at the Council of Europe in 1993 at the European Commission of Human Rights.
A Devastating Indictment of the European Union (EU)
By Perry Anderson and Robert Tombs
Translated Tuesday 26 January 2021
The prominent Left-wing intellectual Perry Anderson has just published a comprehensive and crushing indictment of the EU from its beginnings to the present. Robert Tombs provides a summary for those who might balk at reading the whole 50,000 words.
Perry Anderson’s evisceration of the European Union’s past and present in three long articles in the London Review of Books is remarkable in at least three ways. First, for its lucidity and intellectual richness: my summary can in no way substitute for reading the whole, which I strongly recommend. If many of its arguments are broadly familiar to critics of the EU, they have rarely been so cogently expressed, or with such controlled anger and command of detail. Second, because it comes from a leading Left-wing intellectual though this will be no surprise to Left-inclined Leavers or to those who have followed
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