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Gaza War: The Nearby Sea, Far Out of Reach

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung · 2014-08-08

A report from Gaza by Hans-Christian Rößler during the August 2014 war, on how the Cairo truce talks also broke down over a seaport for Gaza, the limits on the fishing zone, the port project begun in the late 1990s and European ideas for inspecting Gaza-bound ships at Larnaca. Omar Shaban, head of the Gaza institute Pal Think, says Gaza has had three wars and three international reconstruction conferences in six years with billions pledged, notes that 500 families whose homes were destroyed five and a half years earlier are still waiting for new houses, and suggests a small power plant on a ship, connected to the shore by cable, as a stop-gap for the electricity shortage.

A report from Gaza by Hans-Christian Rößler during the August 2014 war, on how the Cairo truce talks also broke down over a seaport for Gaza, the limits on the fishing zone, the port project begun in the late 1990s and European ideas for inspecting Gaza-bound ships at Larnaca. Omar Shaban, head of…

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