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Bringing Gaza Home

Almost three weeks since Israeli air strikes began, the pounding of Gaza continues, sending thousands of wounded civilians to hospital and many more fleeing to UN shelters. Imagine all of this human suffering taking place in a strip from the Humber to the Rouge.

And there’s only three ways out.

GAZA stripped

Population 1.5 million

Refugees 1.017 million

Total without water 500,000 (since the Israeli air strikes)

Unemployment rate 35 per cent

Percentage of population under 14 45 (344,988 of them males)

Infant mortality rate 19 per 1,000, almost five times that of Israel (4 per 1,000)

Electricity consumption 230,000 kWh (2005) almost half of that (90,000 kWh) imported from the Israeli Electric Corporation

Number of battle tanks in Israeli arsenal 970

Number of warplanes 875

Number of military helicopters 286

Number killed since the Israeli invasion 940, half of them civilians, 300 children

Number of civilians wounded 4,100

Number being sheltered by the UN 40,000 in 41 schools

Number of trucks carrying aid allowed by Israel into Gaza 1,028 (as of Wednesday)

Number of rockets fired by Hamas into Israel 565 (plus 200 mortar shells as of Wendesday)

Number of Israelis killed since 2000 by Hamas rockets and mortars 38

Sources: CIA World Factbook, United Nations, Israeli Defence Force.

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