Tim Marshall of Sky News filed a great dispatch from Gaza about the strip's middle class.
Gaza's middle and upper classes do not feature much in news reports – but they do exist.
This explains why there are swimming pools and water parks, boutique hotels, excellent restaurants and a brand new shopping mall . . .
That stratum is small but it is wrong to depict all Gazans as if they spend their lives in abject poverty scrabbling through the ruins of buildings bombed by the Israeli Defence Forces.
. . . the well-stocked supermarkets, luxury goods and new cars show that there is a level of society that can afford them.
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