Another Lost Generation in Gaza
NOVANEWS
MOHAMMED OMER
Palestinian youths flash their passports as they wait to cross at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Nov. 20, 2017. Egypt opened the crossing for Ramadan in 2018 and promised to keep it open during the summer. Israel closed the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza to all but essential humanitarian supplies in July 2018. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2018, pp. 14-15
Gaza on the Ground
By Mohammed Omer
FOR 9-YEAR-OLD ANAS, standing at the wall in Rafah which separates Egypt from Gaza, there is no attainable world beyond. That world exists only in his dreams. He can go to school and come back home to play—but always in the shadow of this blockade, called the wall. There he can play soccer, as if it is hi...