Mladenov: PA could collapse from COVID-19 economic backlash
Concern regarding the potential financial collapse of the PA predates the pandemic, but the virus has intensified the situation as donor funding has dropped.
A member of medical staff swaps a Palestinian worker for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing, upon his return from Israel, outside the Israeli-controlled Tarqumiya checkpoint near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 26, 2020(photo credit: MUSSA QAWASMA / REUTERS)ByTOVAH LAZAROFF