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Source: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-lets-have-some-truth-about-the-situation-in-gaza
Let's Have Some Truth about the Situation in Gaza
(National Post-Canada) Barbara Kay - Ben-Dror Yemini's new book, Industry of Lies: Media, Academia, and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, debunks the "Gaza is like Auschwitz" myth. In 1967, when Israeli control over the West Bank and Gaza began, life expectancy stood at 48. By 2000, it had leapt to 72, higher not only than in most Arab countries, but higher than in South America and some EU countries. In 1967, infant mortality among Palestinians was 157 per thousand births. In 2006 it was 21, significantly lower than in neighboring Arab and North African countries. Indeed, Palestinian infant mortality rates are now better than in Turkey and Bulgaria.