Palestine: In Gaza, Water Is Life

Feb 15, 2024 | Ben Norquist and Mae Elise Cannon, Christian Century
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Water plays an important cultural role in Palestinian society. Aside from the obvious biological need for it, it is also an object of memory and longing. Although it is getting harder under Israel’s coastal blockade, generations of Gazan fishermen have made their life on the water, even earning a reputation in times gone by for the fine fishing nets they produced and shipped around the world. (It is thought that the word gauze might be derived from Gaza.)