21 poison gas attack on rebel-held neighborhoods outside Damascus, which the U.S., Human Rights Watch and other Western countries say was carried out by Assad’s forces. The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have been killed so far in the two-year-long Syrian conflict, pitting the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad against a largely Sunni Muslim opposition. The head of Gaza’s chamber of commerce, Maher Attabar, says Gazans are finding it nearly impossible to buy Israeli goods - at nearly double the price. Gaza’s Hamas-run government says Egypt has destroyed more than 90 percent of the tunnels, which are used to smuggle fuel, construction materials and other goods to the territory’s 1.7 million residents. In addition to shutting its passenger crossing with Gaza, the Egyptian military moved to close the tunnels that ferry goods under the Gaza-Egypt border. The government that replaced Morsi partly blamed Palestinians and the Islamist Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, for some of the violence that had gripped the country. But still, “everything is rare here and prices are skyrocketing.”Īlready isolated and struggling economically, Gaza was hit even harder when Egypt’s military ousted former president and Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohamed Morsi, in July. “All the materials I need are available in Gaza,” he said. Opening the body of the soda bottle, he attaches it to the jar to cover the face.
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