Seventy-two years after the Nakba, Israel and the United States continue to deny the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, writes Dalal Yassine.

The key to peace in the Middle East is the returning home of displaced Palestinians — whether refugees, exiles or diaspora.

Lebanon recently confirmed the first COVID-19 case among Palestinian refugees in the country.

The international community and its weak condemnations will not help Palestinians. It is time for a new strategy.

The coronavirus outbreak exposes the fundamental inhumanity of US foreign policy in the Middle East.

Palestinian and Syrian refugees need adequate testing and healthcare, not more restrictions on their movement.

My fear is that once this coronavirus threat passes, some measures will also be normalized this time: from racism in health care, to holding Palestinians and their health care system hostage, to surveillance, to home demolitions and blockades – all in the name of “public security.”

While the coronavirus has disrupted peoples’ lives in almost every part of the globe, restricting freedom of movement and the right to family life, Palestinians have been living for decades with uncertainty and arbitrariness imposed by Israel’s settler-colonial enterprise and apartheid regime, controlling their every move and the most basic aspects of their lives.