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Article: A ghastly little place: the fate of the Gaza Strip.(THE MIDDLE EAST)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- June 25, 2007
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NAHED NIMER had just finished afternoon prayers at his home in Gaza City when he heard loud banging at the door. About twelve gunmen stormed their way in, aiming rifles at the terrified man and his family. "Come with us for ten minutes," the intruders demanded as they dragged the 58-year-old father of six away.
Two hours later, Nimer's family received a phone call from a friend telling them that their father had been admitted to a hospital. "We rushed to the emergency room, but my father was not there," recalls the oldest son, Muhammad. "We were told that he had been taken directly to the morgue. He had been brutally tortured before being shot 50 times in various ...