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Israeli journalist Amit Segal quotes IDF reservists coming out of Gaza:"
I learned that the population is not as dense as has been described, and I'm not just talking about the luxury Rimal neighborhood, where the standard of living is better than it seemed to us from the outside."https://t.me/amitsegal/32266"..
.there is an amazing phenomenon in Gaza. You enter luxury homes, luxury villas and apartments equipped in a way I will not be able to achieve in 50 years, and yet you find use of UNRWA equipment in them. In the kitchen, bags of flour from UNRWA and in the children's room UNRWA school notebooks. This is in every house in the Gaza Strip. In other words, 𝘢𝘭𝘭residents of the Gaza Strip used the organization every day, not necessarily because they had to, but because they got used to it. Getting close to and relying on this organization has become a comfortable thing.""When you are there you suddenly realize that it is a state for all intents and purposes, with the strength and power of a state, infrastructure, money, space. This is not just a city. It's a real country of 2 million people. A country that decided to invest a lot of state resources in terrorism and fighting. You can see the infrastructural state power everywhere.
The use of the term refugee is so cynical there. There are refugees there with luxury apartments (I saw the passports with my eyes) and understand there that this is a kind of use of a title emptied of its real content, like the title of Sir or Duke in Great Britain.
The citizen in Gaza Strip learned to deal with the electricity problem in the Strip. The fact that a few hours of electricity are officially provided per day is not necessarily felt by everyone. The absolute majority of houses and shops have generators, batteries or solar panels on the houses. This is why letting in gasoline that activates the generator is so critical for them and therefore the insistence on it."https://t.me/amitsegal/32328