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Scoop Media, July 23, 02
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of the Muslims living in the Gaza Strip and Israel's view of them:
In 1986, the Gaza population stood at 525,000 and the density at
2,150 per square kilometer (in Israel it is 186). Most able-bodied Gazans,
starting sometimes at age eight, work in Israel, at wages which are 40
percent below average Israeli pay. They pay income tax - without being
entitled to any benefits, since they are defined as nonresidents.
In the Israeli consciousness Gaza has become the symbol of help-
lessness and squalor, but there is no sympathy for the denizens
of Gaza, for they are the enemy. 12
It will be useful at this point to briefly consider the impressions of
a Palestinian-American citizen who visited the refugee camps in order
to get a better idea of the conditions there. Yasmine Subhi Ali, a medical
student, says this of her 1999 visit to the Shatila Camp:
