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Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the world’s attention has been diverted by wars in Lebanon and Iraq. A whole society is being destroyed. There are 1.5 million Palestinians imprisoned in the most heavily populated area in the world. Israel has stopped all trade. It has even forbidden fishermen to go far from the shore, so they wade into the surf to try vainly to catch fish with hand-thrown nets.
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Cockburn, P. (2010). Gaza Is a Jail: Gaza Is Dying. In: Cook, W.A. (eds) The Plight of the Palestinians. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107922_8
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