I have a sense of day job, dude.

I was in Lebanon after the Israeli war on Lebanon of 2006, and we've all watched the

Gaza Wars, the 2008-20012 and the 2014 war.

So it's a familiar feeling in the pit of your stomach.

When you see people under aerial bombardment, I've experienced it.

It's always different, but it is the same feeling.

In recent weeks, bombs fell once again.

The United Nations reports that in Gaza, at least 242 Palestinians, including more than

100 women and children, have been killed.

Thousands have had their homes destroyed.

According to the Israeli military, at least 12 people in Israel, including two children,

have been killed by rockets fired from Gaza.

Gaza is a 25-mile long strip of land that sits on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean

Sea, with Egypt to its southwest and Israel surrounding it on every side.

It's one of two areas known as the Palestinian Territories.

The other, the West Bank, is separated from Gaza by Israeli territory.

And the nearly 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza have, for the most part, been denied

free access to the outside world since 2007, when Hamas, the militant group and political

party, became the governing body of Gaza.

The United Nations has characterized the 14-year blockade as a denial of basic human rights,

which has led to soaring poverty rates, food scarcity, and water shortages.

Late last week, a tenuous calm replaced the sound of bombs when a ceasefire was reached

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