(Mideast Dispatch Archive) Tom Gross - If there are no building materials allowed into Gaza, how did they build this shopping center which opened on July 17? See also photos of Gaza's hotels, beauty spas, fancy restaurants, Olympic-size swimming pool, beaches and street markets. Of course there is poverty in parts of Gaza. There is poverty in parts of Israel too. As a correspondent for one of Japan's biggest newspapers noted, "Gaza and the West Bank are the only places in the world where I have seen refugees drive Mercedes."
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