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Gazan mother of 7 makes living by selling bread crumbs

Fairuz, a 45-year-old Palestinian woman and her family's sole breadwinner, has learned to eke out a living in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip by selling bread crumbs to local bird breeders.

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According to UN data, roughly 80 percent of the Palestinians in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip require humanitarian assistance. For the last 12 years, the Gaza Strip has continued to groan under a crippling Israeli blockade that has gutted the coastal enclave's economy and deprived its two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.