Muhammad Shehada

Muhammad Shehada is a Gazan journalist and visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

‘You made a serious mistake by leaving Gaza,’ my friend Ibrahim used to say. ‘Come back!’ Ibrahim was one of the lucky few. Despite Israel’s blockade – which created the ‘worst economic depression in modern history’, as a World Bank report put it – Ibrahim had found a way to earn a decent living. We studied computer engineering together at...

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