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What Happens When Coronavirus Invades a War Zone | NYT News

2020.4.14

(00:00-01:36)

“Everyone is thinking about their lives. They don’t know what to do anymore because whenever there’s a shelling, you can’t leave your house. So you just have to sit and wait for your fate.” After years of civil war, many Libyans have come to expect the bombings, the airstrikes, the clashes. But now Libya faces the coronavirus pandemic. “I sometimes wonder which death is gonna be worse? Catching corona, or being instantly attacked by a missile?”

Now life in this conflict zone that seemed like it couldn’t get any worse, suddenly has it just a matter of weeks. “I’ve just lost my will to live. I feel like I’m living in a whirlpool that I can never get out of.” “the war should stop in order to have a better chance of dealing with the virus. It doesn’t mean that we will easily beat it.” But the war hasn’t stopped. Years of conflict have not only led to conditions that make it easier for the virus to spread, but forces pushing to seize the capital city now seem to be exploiting the pandemic to inflict maximum terror on civilians, by shelling areas where people are clearly trapped at home under curfew, and by attacking Libya’s already overwhelmed hospitals.

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