Nowhere is like Gaza now – the young woman was right. It is not just the UN reports which detail how Gaza will be unliveable by 2020, or the twenty-hour power cuts, the lack of drinking water, the sewage lakes, the blackened precarious shells of bombed tower blocks, the miles of rubble that were houses, the Israeli surveillance balloon hovering constantly, the regular shelling of fishermen and farmers or the living in constant fear. Nowhere but in Gaza is the entire population living in prison. Only foreigners know they can leave.
