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Isolated Gaza Goes Hungry

Food is hard to come by for Palestinians in Hamas-controlled region

By Caroline Zimmerman, Newser User

Posted Jun 29, 2007 3:00 PM CDT

(Newser) – Fuel shortages have become familiar, and now food staples like flour and sugar are increasingly hard to come by in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Aid agencies are doing their best to forestall an impending humanitarian crisis, the Globe and Mail reports, but with the main... Read full story »

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Food is hard to come by for Palestinians in Hamas-controlled region

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