3. Palestinian Getaway: Gaza, so close and yet so far ...
Once the Israeli stamp obtained we headed to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, where Palestinian lives friends with whom we were accommodated during our stay.
Bethlehem is 85 km from Gaza.
So close and yet the evening of my arrival, Gaza seemed so far away. After a lengthy journey from 21h (Paris-Istanbul-Amman-Jerusalem-Bethlehem), we had a haste to resume our minds. Done in a cafe in Bethlehem. Flat screens connected Al Jazeera when it announced the death of Said Siyam, a leader and Minister of Hamas.
Then suddenly, one of the servers zap, is Rotana, which broadcasts, as usual, videos Lebanese, Egyptian ...
few minutes later, the room darkens. No this is not a power outage. We celebrate a birthday. Singing, shouting, whistling, applauding it. I admit I was shocked by so much light, so only a few tens of kilometers from here, Hundreds of Palestinians have died, the sight are on the street ... A young Palestinian man then tell me "We had the first intifada, the second, the disillusionment of Oslo, we need to think of something else to continue to live. "
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