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VIRUS DIARY: Isolation and patience on a quiet Gaza farm

by Associated Press
| April 11, 2020 12:03 AM

BEIT LAHIYEH, Gaza Strip (AP) — I haven't spent more than a single night at my family's farm on the northern edge of Gaza since an Israeli airstrike killed my father there more than a decade ago. But the arrival of the coronavirus has upended our notions of danger and refuge.

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