Some came to burn. Many more came to marvel and then plunder. But for young Mohammed Hijezi it was enough just to touch the sea for the first time. The nine-year-old lives a short run from the beach but until yesterday the Israeli military cut off access and he had never seen the sea.
“I came very early, as soon as I had my breakfast and put on my clothes,” he said. “I was supposed to go to school. My parents don’t know. I was dreaming of swimming. The water is very beautiful and very cold.”

…Yesterday, Israel described the attempts to burn down or bulldoze synagogues in four former Gaza settlements as “barbaric”.
guardian.co.uk

Barbaric? It is BARBARIC to have forbidden the children of Gaza from putting their feet in the sea. They destroyed a couple of abandoned synagogues? How many houses did the Israelis bulldoze with people living inside???

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