Word: nuseirat
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Dates: during 1987-1987
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...density that approaches Hong Kong's. The Jews inhabit a beach-front enclave that is fast growing into an Israeli Riviera. But more than 60% of Gaza's Arabs are refugees, most of whom live in squalid United Nations camps built 40 years ago. In the camp of Nuseirat, Sabha, a 50-year- old woman, finds only despair. "There is no way of getting out of this muddy life unless a miracle occurs," she said. "But the time of miracles has gone...
...their travails, the Gazans are intent on remaining where they are. Yet sometimes every day under Israeli occupation seems a curse that can test even the strongest faith. "Often I wonder whether God exists or not," says Fatima, 20, a refugee who lives in Nuseirat. "What did we do to be punished in such...
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