The Toronto Star described Palestinian looters of Gaza settlements as mere ‘recyclers’:
The all-day harvest was described by many as looting. And indeed, some went to great extremes to secure their booty, like the man in Neve Dekalim who used an arc welder to chop a street light into cartable and saleable scrap metal.
But this was as much intense recycling as anything, a redemption of landfill-bound leftovers by a population where the proportion living below the poverty line approaches 70 per cent.
