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elleng

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8. 'We aren’t told that over 70% of Gaza’s population used to live in Israel
Tue Jul 22, 2014, 12:24 PM
Jul 2014

and was ethnically cleansed and left penniless. We aren’t told that Israel has a blockade on Gaza that does not allow it to export most of what it produces, that this blockade has thrown 40% of the working population into unemployment and left 56% of families food insecurity (just on the verge of going to bed hungry). We aren’t told that Israeli occupation has left 90% of people in Gaza without potable water.'

Rula Jebreal is certainly right.

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