Gaza’s Christians fear the future
Mel Frykberg; 26/2/08
Fourteen masked gunmen burst into Gaza City’s YMCA library last week, overpowered two guards and laid explosive charges. One of the bombs later exploded, engulfing the building in fire, destroying most of the library’s 10,000 books, which were used mostly by high-school and university students. The other explosive charge was later safely defused by police while the guards were released unharmed in the north of the Gaza Strip. The attack on the YMCA, which also provides both Muslim and Christian Gazans with cultural exchange programs, a cultural center and summer camps, has unnerved Gaza’s tiny Christian community of approximately 3,500 people living among a Muslim population of 1.5 million.
See: http://www.metimes.com/International/2008/02/26/gazas_christians _fear_the_future/8912/