The Palestinian Authority Interior Ministry announces that it will punish violators of the week-long lockdown beginning tonight with a $1,400 fine, up to a year in prison, or both.
Four West Bank provinces — Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem — have been designated as red zones by the PA. Their 1.6 million residents will enter a week-long lockdown starting tonight.
Palestinians take pictures in front of the Ibrahimi mosque, also known to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs, in Hebron on December 9, 2020. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
“We have reached the decision to return to lockdown based on the coronavirus situation in some provinces, which have seen 30% rates of tests coming back positive,” PA Interior Ministry spokesperson Ghassan Nimr says in a statement discussing the higher penalties.
Nimr estimated in an interview with Voice of Palestine Radio two weeks ago that adherence to a recent attempt at to lock down West Bank Palestinian areas had been only around 60%.
— Aaron Boxerman
Help us report truthfully on social media
As a multimedia journalist, my job is to take the quality, fact-based journalism produced by The Times of Israel newsroom and make it accessible across every platform — from Instagram posts to podcasts to short-form videos.
This is how many, especially young people, consume news these days. But misinformation is rampant on social media. Our team at ToI produces accurate, responsible short-form reporting on Israel and the Jewish world.
If you believe in the importance of factual social media journalism, please consider joining our reader support group, The Times of Israel Community. Your financial support is essential to sustain responsible multimedia reporting.
We’re really pleased that you’ve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month.
That’s why we started the Times of Israel - to provide discerning readers like you with must-read coverage of Israel and the Jewish world.
So now we have a request. Unlike other news outlets, we haven’t put up a paywall. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community.
For as little as $6 a month you can help support our quality journalism while enjoying The Times of Israel AD-FREE, as well as accessing exclusive content available only to Times of Israel Community members.
Thank you, David Horovitz, Founding Editor of The Times of Israel
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on Google
