BBC NEWS | Middle East | Eyewitness: BBC reporter in Rafah

Page last updated at 23:40 GMT, Friday, 16 January 2009 The BBC's Christian Fraser is the first British journalist to enter Gaza independently since the Israeli offensive began. Israel is continuing to deny foreign journalists unsupervised access to the Strip. He sent this report from Rafah, southern Gaza, which he entered from Egypt. Nineteen days we had waited to cross into Rafah. For three week

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Jan. 16/’"But how long will it last? If the international community continues to turn a blind eye to the injustices we suffer then we will never break this vicious circle. We want peace too. Who wants to live like this?"’