The Billings Gazette · 26 July 2020
CP-2020-012
Gazans defy taboos to help stray animals
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WORLD A12 | SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2020 BILLINGS GAZETTE Organizer gets a fatwa permitting neutering, spaying WAFAA SHURAFA AND FARES AKRAM Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - In the impoverished Gaza Strip, where most people struggle to make ends meet amid a crippling blockade, the suffering of stray dogs and cats often goes unnoticed.
Said el-Er, who founded the A Palestinian veterinarian injects territory's only animal rescue or- anesthetic for a neutering surgery ganization in 2006, has been try- at a clinic in Gaza City on July 13. ing to change that. He and other volunteers rescue dogs and cats this year.
Before that, El-Er kept that have been struck by cars or the rescued animals at his home abused and nurse them back to and on two small tracts of land health - but there are too many. So in recent weeks they have launched Gaza's first spay-and- houses around 200 dogs, many neuter p
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The caption read 22 July 2020. The page furniture reads "SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2020"; the 26th was a Sunday and the 22nd was a Wednesday.
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"Gazans defy taboos to help stray animals," The Billings Gazette, 26 July 2020. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2020-012. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2020-012
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