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BikeAbout Log

At 6:00 PM December 8, 1997
Sunrise (local): 6:28 a.m. Sunset (local): 4:39 p.m.	Weather 70°F
Traveled Since Yesterday 0 m / 0 km Cumulative 1476 mi / 2377 km	Lat: 31° 31' 56" N Lon: 34° 27' 07" E Elev: 0 ft / 0 m

Fast Facts

Where We Are: Gaza City
Where We're Staying: DIA / Diwan el Shabab
Places We Visited: Ministry of Youth and Sport of the Palestinian National Authority
Featured Site: DIA / Diwan el Shabab
Person of the Day: Emmanuel Delpuech, French coordinator of DIA
What We Ate:: Food of the Day: no food, just hunger; Breakfast: cookies and juice with the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sport of Palestine; Lunch: nothing!; Dinner: Corinne and andrEa jammed on a Palestinian version of falafel, while our more numerous group of visitors to Gaza shared mixed salad, humus, tahini, kofta, and shwarma.; Olive Count: 1246
Word of the Day: Sadaqqa means "friendship" in Arabic.
Tech Fact of the Day: An estimated 1–1.2 million Palestinians (there is a census being conducted right now) live in the approximately 350-square-kilometer strip of land that is Gaza. Approximately 70% of the people in Gaza are under the age of 25. Most of those who are under the age of 30 and not married are not allowed to leave Gaza, even to work in Israel. In fact, most of the people who were born in Gaza after 1967 have never left. (This striking picture/postcard , designed by DIA / Diwan el Shabab, is used with their permission.): Flat Count (Cumulative): 4; Broken Spoke Count (Cumulative): 19

Next Stop: We are staying in Gaza!

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