How many times have you heard on television or read in the media that the Gaza Strip is "the most densely populated area in the world"? Repeating this statement, however, does not make it true. There are dense parts of Gaza, especially Gaza City, Beit Hanoun and Khan Younis, but there are far less dense areas in Gaza between these cities. Just look at Google Earth, or this population density map.
The fact that these sparsely populated areas exist in the Gaza Strip
raise several important moral questions: First, why don't the media show the
relatively open areas of the Gaza Strip? Why do they only show the densely
populated cities? There are several possible reasons. There is no fighting
going on in the sparsely populated areas, so showing them would be boring. But
that's precisely the point—to show areas from which Hamas could be firing
rockets and building tunnels but has chosen not to. Or perhaps the reason the
media doesn't show these areas is that Hamas won't let them. That too would be
a story worth reporting.
Second, why doesn't Hamas use sparsely populated areas from which to
launch its rockets and build its tunnels? Were it to do so, Palestinian
civilian casualties would decrease dramatically, but the casualty rate among
Hamas terrorists would increase dramatically......To Read More.....
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