Abstract

'Operation Cast Lead', Israel's 'shock and awe' military offensive into Gaza in December 2008, must have seemed like hell on earth for the 1.5 million inhabitants of that wretched, densely populated and poverty-stricken scrap of territory. Trapped in what is in essence a fenced-in enclave with all exits sealed off by both Israel and Egypt, the people of Gaza became sitting ducks with no place to hide from the seismic aerial bombardment and relentless artillery fire from the ground.

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