Like Father, Unlike Son
NOVANEWS
MOHAMMED OMER
Palestinian children play in a courtyard between new Qatari-built residential units in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 20, 2018. The apartment complex is one of several projects funded by Qatar to rebuild Gaza. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2019, pp. 29, 42
Gaza on the Ground
By Mohammed Omer
NOT A SINGLE FAMILY IN GAZA does not discuss the future of their besieged enclave. The narrative has changed over time: the fathers, in their mid- to late 50s, continue to share good memories of traveling to Israel to work, and had good relations with Israeli business owners.
Their children, however, do not share those same memories. Instead Gaza’s younger generation speak of the recent border prote...