How Many Millionaires Live in the "Impoverished" Gaza Strip?

The world often thinks of the Gaza Strip, home to 1.4 million Palestinians, as one of the poorest places on earth, where people live in misery and squalor.

But according to an investigative report published in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, there are at least 600 millionaires living in the Gaza Strip. The newspaper report also refutes the claim that the Gaza Strip has been facing a humanitarian crisis because of an Israeli blockade.

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Former PA security chief Dahlan says Gaza "not under siege", residents "not lacking anything."

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

08/09/2012 19:36

Former PA security chief claims Hamas created atmosphere ripe for "new terror groups"; accuses Gaza leadership of threatening Egypt's national security; says Gaza "not under siege", residents "not lacking anything."

 
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Hamas has created the proper environment for the emergence of new terror groups in the Gaza Strip, Mohammed Dahlan, a former Palestinian security commander, said Thursday.

Dahlan, who founded and headed the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Force in the Gaza Strip between 1994 and 2000, also accused Hamas of harboring the terror groups and using their members to kill Fatah activists in the Gaza Strip.

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