The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated and impoverished parts of the Middle East. It is also one of the most beleaguered places on earth, ruled by the Islamist Hamas, crushed by an Israeli (and Egyptian) blockade and exhausted by clashes with Israel. So far, fighting between militants and Israel has done nothing to deliver progress towards a political settlement that might release Gaza’s residents from what is effectively an open-air prison.
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