Life in the prison camp that is Gaza

Gaza is rarely described by the BBC without the additional description of "the most densely populated place on earth" or "like a prison camp" and where the population are described as being "near starvation" and "starving with no food in the shops". Here, for example, is my post from December quoting The Times's report that some in Gaza were "scrounging for the wild grass their family now lives on". I have also blogged about the full supermarkets and the fairgrounds full of funseekers.

Today I find the following piece of video taken in early December showing full market stalls, nice cars and taxis everywhere; a place seemingly far more prosperous than many Indian and Caribbean towns that I have been to, and yet this the place that gets $millions and $millions in aid from the United Nations, the EU, the UK government etc. etc. etc. and whose poverty and degradation are blamed on Israel.




And here are those pictures of the supermarkets, markets and fairgrounds of Gaza.