Caring for Stray Animals in Besieged Gaza

Despite Gaza’s immense human suffering, this team of animal rescuers still make time to care for the Strip’s stray cats and dogs

Nick McAlpin
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5 min readSep 23, 2019

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The Gaza Strip is in crisis, and has been for a long time. In large part due to the blockade imposed on it by Israel and Egypt in 2007, the UN predicts that come next year, the besieged enclave will no longer be “a liveable place” without “herculean efforts” to improve access to safe drinking water, high-quality healthcare and education, and…

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Nick McAlpin
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Nick McAlpin is a freelance journalist and Cambridge Trust UK Masters scholar on the University of Cambridge’s MPhil Social Anthropology programme.