Generally speaking, up to 80% of Gazans live in poverty, and Israel places severe restrictions on what they can import. It's crippling the economy (and education and development) to a degree that makes Cuba look like it belongs to the G20.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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