APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Deir al-Balah – 25 June 2021. Palestinians sit inside a cafe built in the Malaysian way in the form of hanging huts at the beach of the Mediterranean sea in Deir al-Balah.
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SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Rami al-Naaouk
STORYLINE
The beach is one of the few open public spaces in this densely populated city.
The sea was once Gaza’s only escape, the one place in this tiny enclave where residents could depart from their entrapped lives, if only for an hour.
But now a ceaseless conflict that seems to impinge on nearly every aspect of life here has claimed the Mediterranean, too. Because of skyrocketing levels of water pollution, attributable to political and economic turmoil, the 25-mile coastline is now another barrier in a place where barriers are all too common.
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