assessment-impact-covid-19-pandemic-syrian-refugees-and-vulnerable-lebanese-tripoli; Impact of
COVID-19 on migrant workers in Lebanon and what employers can do about it (Beirut: ILO, 2020),
https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---arabstates/---ro-beirut/documents/publication/
wcms_741604.pdf; and Carlota Pérez, “COVID-19 multiplies Lebanon’s political and economic
instability,” Atalayar, April 21, 2020, https://atalayar.com/en/content/covid-19-multiplies-lebanonspolitical-and-economic-instability. Syria: “Beyond the health sector: COVID-19’s impact on Syria’s
economy and detainees,” COAR Weekly Political,Economic, and Security Outlook 3, no. 13 (March
2020), https://coar-global.org/2020/03/30/beyond-the-health-sector-covid-19s-impact-on-syriaseconomy-and-detainees/. Jordan: Allison Hartnett et al., “Drastic Measures: Coercive Enforcement
and Economic Effects of Pandemic Suppression in Jordan,” Memo, Project on Middle East Political
Science, April 2020, https://pomeps.org/drastic-measures-coercive-enforcement-and-economiceffects-of-pandemic-suppression-in-jordan?fbclid=IwAR1n-8S-1Xoat30HEQZjQXvtLUBht4SkElb3v2
5D9IJ9G3P6Y5TNF6F9HXw.
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Defense Order No. 6 of 2020, as amended.
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“In Jerash refugee camp, lockdown means ‘living without eating’,” +972 Magazine; “Situation
of Palestinians of Syria Exacerbated by Coronavirus in Jordan,” Action Group for Palestinians of
Syria, May 12, 2020, https://www.actionpal.org.uk/en/post/10090/news-and-reports/situationof-palestinians-of-syria-exacerbated-by-coronavirus-in-jordan; and Covid-19 Weekly Update 18–24
May 2020 (UNRWA: Amman, 2020), https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/unrwa_
covid-19_unrwa_weekly_18_-24_may.pdf.
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“Khirfan instructs the heads of the camp services committees to exempt all tenants from
the March rent,” Department of Palestinian Affairs, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, May 2020,
www.dpa.gov.jo/news.php?446; Salah Malkawi, “Palestinian Affairs” exempts tenants from this
month’s rent,” Almamlaka, April 14, 2020, https://www.almamlakatv.com/news/-تعفي-الفلســطينية-الشؤون
37538-الشــهر-إيجار-من-املستأجرين
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Defense Order No. 9 of 2020 (https://bit.ly/2TVtOAH). The order consists of three programs
in cooperation with the SSC Ex-Gazans and children of Jordanian women married to non-Jordanian
men can benefit from the first program, Tadamun (solidarity) 1, that covers institutions already
covered by the SSC. Employees receive 50% of their salaries, provided that the amount ranges
between JD165 and JD500.
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Suha Arraf, “The moment a worker is sick, they throw him to the checkpoint like a dog,”
+972 Magazine, March 24, 2020, https://www.972mag.com/checkpoint-palestinian-laborerscoronavirus/; Adam Rasgon, “PA asks Israel to test thousands of Palestinian workers before they
return home,”
The Times of Israel, April 2, 2020, https://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-asks-israel-to-test-some50000-palestinian-workers-before-they-return-home/; Idan Zonshine, “Israel won’t test people with
COVID-19 symptoms unless they’ve traveled,” The Jerusalem Post, 4 April 2020, https://www.jpost.
com/israel-news/health-ministry-narrow-criteria-for-covid-19-tests-needs-more-reagents-623535;
Nida Ibrahim, “Palestinian workers returning home ‘could fuel outbreak,” Al Jazeera, April 5,
2020,
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/palestinian-workers-returning-home-couldfuel-outbreak-200405113836825.html; The Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory (19 – 25 March 2020) (Gaza City: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights,
2020, https:// www.pchrgaza.org/en/?p=14348.
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