Life in the Gaza Strip

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Life in the Gaza Strip

• Growing Up in Gaza
• http//www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/1247
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• Palestinian Parkour
• http//www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/1248
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• Video ClipsFrom Nov. 2012 conflict
• Tensions Grow between Israel and Hamas
• http//www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/1000
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• A Look at the Violence in Gaza
• http//www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/1000
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• West Bank Rallies for Gaza
• http//www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/1000
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Palestinian youth hurl stones towards Israeli
soldiers at the Qalandia checkpoint, in the
Israeli occupied West Bank, on November 19, 2012
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Members of the militant group Islamic Jihad
patrol the border with Israel to prevent
incursions by the Israel Defense Forces. The
average Gazan family has six people, and with so
few jobs to be had, disaffected young men are
drawn to extremist groups.
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A worker emerges from one of hundreds of
smuggling tunnels that connect the Gaza Strip and
Egypt.
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Palestinian Yoused Abu Khoussa carries the body
of his one and a half year-old son Iyad, during
his funeral in Bureij Refugee Camp, central Gaza
Strip, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012
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A Palestinian youth stands next to the
controversial Israeli separation barrier during
clashes with Israeli forces at the Qalandia
checkpoint, in the Israeli occupied West Bank, on
November 19, 2012.
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Palestinian students from Birzeit University burn
tires during clashes with Israeli soldiers, for
the second consecutive day, as they protest
against the ongoing Israeli offensive on the Gaza
Strip in the West Bank town of Betunia on
November 18, 2012
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Smoke rises during an explosion from an Israeli
strike in Gaza City, as the Hamas-ruled Strip was
bombarded with nearly 200 airstrikes early on
Saturday
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Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers stand guard by the
Iron Dome defence system's new launch site in Tel
Aviv. For the third day in a row, rockets from
Gaza cruised towards the biggest metropolitan
region in Israel.
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A Palestinian searches for victims under the
rubble of the destroyed house of a Hamas official
,after an air strike in Jabaliya refugee camp of
the northern Gaza Strip.
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 Israeli children wave their national flag as
they greet an army convoy passing on a road
leading to the Israel-Gaza border near the
southern Israeli town of Ofakim.
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Israeli border policemen detain a Palestinian
stone-thrower during clashes against Israel's
military operation in the Gaza Strip, at Hawara
checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus
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Gaza Age of Population as of 2012

• 0-14 years 43.8
• (male 384,494/female 363,818)
• 15-24 years 21.1
• (male 185,250/female 176,385)
• 25-54 years 29.2
• (male 256,533/female 243,336)
• 55-64 years 3.3
• (male 27,745/female 28,461)
• 65 years and over 2.6
• (male 17,939/female 26,296)

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• http//www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2012/
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