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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-1963176,00.html
Increase in Seizures Prompted Exodus of Foreigners from Gaza
(Times-UK) Ian MacKinnon - Security has deteriorated to such an extent over the past year that only a few dozen international staff dare to live and work in Gaza. All but twenty-five "critical and essential" UN workers have withdrawn to offices in Jerusalem and Amman after the seizure of two staff in July and August. Those left working for UN agencies live under curfew and are back in their guarded apartments before nightfall. When UN staff travel outside Gaza City they do so in armored vehicles to enable them to escape a hold-up.