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Source: CCTV.com | 11-23-2008 11:20

Residents of the Gaza Strip are suffering a humanitarian crisis, the result of 18 consecutive days of a blockade imposed by Israel.

Palestinians queue with their cooking gas bottles at a station in the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of al-Nusseirat on August 2008. Israel said it will maintain its closure of the Gaza Strip despite international concern over a deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the aid-dependent Palestinian territory.(AFP)
Palestinians queue with their cooking gas 
bottles at a station in the central Gaza 
Strip refugee camp of al-Nusseirat on August 
2008. Israel said it will maintain its 
closure of the Gaza Strip despite international 
concern over a deterioration of the 
humanitarian situation in the aid-dependent 
Palestinian territory.(AFP)

Israel closed border crossings in response to Palestinian rocket attacks. This has caused shortages of energy and materials. Meng Lingqi has the details.

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