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Source: http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/992551.html
A Year after Hamas Takeover: "Gaza Has Become Afghanistan"
[Ha'aretz ] Avi Issacharoff - From the June 2007 coup until the beginning of this month, human rights groups say, 118 Palestinians have been killed in internecine fighting. Hundreds of Fatah members populate the jails as the result of political persecution, and arrests are carried out almost every day. "We live better from the personal safety perspective," said S., referring to the crackdown on armed gangs. "But what is it all worth on an empty stomach and an empty pocket? There was a dream of making Gaza into the Singapore of the Middle East, but we have become Afghanistan."