{"id":88563,"date":"2020-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/9829\/"},"modified":"2020-03-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T21:00:00","slug":"9829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/9829","title":{"rendered":"As Coronavirus Takes Hold, Palestinian Refugees Launch Distress Signals from Greece Migrant Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Scores of Palestinian refugees seeking shelter on Greek islands have been panic-stricken over recent weeks after reports of new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the country.<\/div>\n<div>The helpless refugees have no proper medical or hygienic kit to battle a looming pandemic of the coronavirus, as the number of new infections increased outside China, including in Greece, whose government has taken a tough stance on migration.<\/div>\n<div>A few days earlier, Greece said it will tighten border controls to prevent the spread of coronavirus, focusing on island routes used by migrants to enter the country.<\/div>\n<div>Last week, Greece reported two new cases of coronavirus, bringing its total of confirmed cases to three &#8211; two in the northern city of Thessaloniki and one in Athens.<\/div>\n<div>Greece is a gateway for refugees and asylum seekers fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and beyond, with more than one million having passed through the country in 2015 and 2016.<\/div>\n<div>Thousands of Palestinian refugees and other migrants are stuck in overcrowded refugee camps in conditions aid organizations say are appalling and which the government itself has described as a \u201cticking health bomb\u201d\u009d.<\/div>\n<div>Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told a cabinet meeting on Thursday that \u201cislands are already overburdened with public health issues and they must be doubly protected\u201d\u009d.<\/div>\n<div>The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR says there are more than 40,000 refugees and asylum seekers on Greek islands. Many have waited for months for their applications to be processed.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of Palestinian refugees seeking shelter on Greek islands have been panic-stricken over recent weeks after reports of new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the country. The helpless refugees have no proper medical or hygienic kit to battle a looming pandemic of the coronavirus, as the number of new infections increased outside China, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}