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Gaza power outages

By The World ⋅ August 11, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
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It’s been a long hot summer for a lot of us. But it’s feeling even longer and hotter for some people in the Gaza Strip. That’s because of incessant power outages, as The World’s Matthew Bell reports from Gaza City. Download MP3

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2 comments for “Gaza power outages”

  • Dorn

    What is striking about your Gaza coverage is your total omission of the thousands of rockets that were launched from Gaza into Israel; and the fact that rockets continue to be launched into Israel. They continue to damage buildings, and if not for warning systems, would take Israeli lives.

    Will The World ever show Gaza’s new luxury mall, or its Olympic swimming pool? Or the upscale resorts frequented by Hamas officials?

    Will it ever show the damage in Israel from the rockets? Or that Israeli towns like Sderot or Ashkelon don’t have Olympic pools?

    You provide continual sympathy to Gazans, exculpating their every act. In contrast, Israelis simply don’t exist as people, except when you are blaming them for responding to attacks that you minimize.

  • Richard Newton

    Regarding Dorn’s comment:

    PRI has a very liberal bent and so of course it doesn’t report on Israel’s problems with Gaza.
    Gaza is preserved by the Arab States as a thorn in Israel’s side.