2023-11-10 12:39:53
Patrick Saint-Paul. Le Figaro
EXCLUSIVE LETTER TO SUBSCRIBERS – Since 1948, the Palestinian enclave has been a cauldron marked by regular outbreaks of violence.
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After having covered a number of Israeli military incursions into the Gaza Strip since September 2000, aimed -already- at “destroying” or reducing the military capabilities of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, a parenthesis not seen since 1994 opened before my eyes at spring 2005. For the first time since the Oslo Accords, poverty-stricken Gaza began to dream of peace and prosperity. Neither the Palestinians themselves, nor international observers, nor frequent visitors to this narrow strip of land, of which I was a part, dared to believe it. History only stumbled a few weeks before proving them right. And yet the hope aroused by the evacuation of the 21 Israeli colonies in the Gaza Strip, announced by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, nourished the wildest dreams. Gaza saw itself as the new Dubai. A regular target of bombings and incursions by the IDF, the governorate of Khan Younes, in the south of the Gaza Strip, believed…
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