Covid-19 ‘worse than war’ for Jerusalem small businesses
Shuttered shops in Jerusalem's Old City today as a nationwide lockdown took effect to curb the spread of Covid-19. – EPA pic, March 19, 2020.
MUNIB Abu Assab, a tour operator in Jerusalem’s Old City, has seen deserted streets before, but he said not even past conflicts over the contested land compare to the impact of coronavirus. The 56-year-old Palestinian has lived though the 1967 Six Day War, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the threat of Iraqi scud missiles in the 1991 Gulf War and two Palestinian intifadas, or uprisings.
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