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That much is clear when the 50-year-old owner of Gaza City's oldest pet store holds up a particularly fluffy kitten. "This is one of the cats we breed here. It's a Siamese mixed with a Persian," he says proudly. "Siamese cats are known for their intelligence. They are the smartest of cats. Whereas Persians have the most beautiful...
...rare cats are his passion, Draimli says, pets in general have always been close to his heart. And he enjoys watching TV channels like Animal Planet to learn new techniques for caring for his animals, which also include birds and fish. (Watch TIME's video "Kittens for Sale in Gaza...
When Draimli opened Birds and Fish World in the 1980s, he says, "People weren't all that interested in cats." It took a few years, he says, to convince his neighbors in the Gaza Strip - home to 1.5 million people, the majority of whom are refugees - that the animals make worthy household companions. (Read TIME's 1981 cover story on cats...
...Even before the Goldstone-report fiasco, Hamas was on a roll. It scored fresh popularity points on Oct. 2 by securing the release of 20 Palestinian women from Israeli jails in exchange for a video confirming that Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured by Gaza militants in 2006, is alive. The German- and Egyptian-mediated swap stirred up fresh hope on both sides that an exchange of Shalit for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners was close at hand. Prime Minister Haniyeh personally greeted the final prisoner in the swap with flowers, underscoring the political gains to be made on the prisoner-release...
...Before the prisoner release, some in Gaza warned that Hamas' popularity might be waning and that an early election might not be in the Islamists' interests given the deteriorating economic plight of Gazans. But thanks to Abbas' intervention in Geneva, those calculations may have been dramatically changed...