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Palestinians mourn the death of Ibrahim Nabil Hamada, 23, who was killed during an Israeli attack, Al Shaja'ia cemetery, Gaza City, July 12, 2014. (Photo: Basel Yazouri/Activestills.org)

Shock, not awe, among ‘battle-hardened’ Gazans

Netanyahu might have taken his ‘gloves off,’ but Palestinians in Gaza have long since been hardened by their bare-knuckle existence. In the three days beginning on March 19, 2003, Baghdad endured just over a thousand bombing runs, all aimed at cowing the Iraqi capital — a city of nearly four million people — through what…

By Samer Badawi July 13, 2014