The second ceasefire in as many days was announced yesterday - good, the more the merrier.
All pretty quiet here, most of the trouble seems to be centred on Gaza. Gaza is that thin strip on the coast, approximately 40km long and 10 km wide with a population of 1.2 million. It is apparently the most densely populated spot on earth. From all accounts it is essentially an open prison, Israel strictly controls who goes in and who leaves. I was reading a report yesterday which gave a number of examples of Palestinians being deported from the West Bank to Gaza, either because they were accused of a "security offence", or somebody in their family was accused of a "security offence". Once in Gaza, they cannot leave.
One of the women in the office, Zicra, is from Gaza. If she were to return home, she would not be able to return to the West Bank. She has not seen her family for six years.
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