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Palestinian fishermen prepare their nets at Gaza Seaport in Gaza City November 25, 2012. Mohammed Salem/Reuters
Fishermen bring in their daily catch at the fish market as crowds gather for fish in Gaza City. Fishermen in Gaza must contend with an Israeli naval blockade, and regularly detained and fired at by Israeli forces. Ann Hermes/Staff
Gaza City residents shop and congregate late into the night on Omar El Mokhtar, one of Gaza City's main streets. Ann Hermes/Staff
Customers fill up at a gas station in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza. Before taxes are applied, Hamas takes more than half of the money earned on every liter of gas sold in Gaza. Ann Hermes/Staff
A welder works in a small shop in the Jabaliya refugee camp. Ann Hermes/Staff
Palestinians relax at The Gallery Cafe, a popular spot for young people in Gaza City. Ann Hermes/Staff
Men sing and dance during a traditional Bedouin wedding celebration in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza. Men and women are generally separated at such parties, which last several days, horses and camels are sometimes brought in. Ann Hermes/Staff
Students review math problems at the Mustafa Sadiq Rafii secondary school for the deaf in Gaza City. The school, which opened in February of 2011 and is funded by the government, is the first of its kind in the Gaza Strip. Ann Hermes/Staff
Students leave school at the end of the first session at the Shadia Abu Ghazala secondary school for girls in Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip. Ann Hermes/Staff
Mr. Mohammed Al Telbani, CEO of Al Awda Factories Co., stands in the empty production factory in the Gaza Strip. The factory, which produces wafers and biscuits, is only able to open for one week out of every month due to a ban on major exports to the West Bank and a lack of raw materials. Ann Hermes/Staff
Artist Mohamed Doghmosh paints a car and motorcycle safety mural on the wall of a police station in Jabaliya. Ann Hermes/Staff
Mohammed Sharawi applies hair gel at his barbershop, Mona Lisa, in the city of Jabaliya. Mohammed and his brother Nadir opened their own small business together in 1998 after they were taught hair styling by their elder brother, who owns another barbershop nearby. Ann Hermes/Staff
Palestinians gather along the Israeli-Gaza border fence in east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 23, 2012. Hundreds of Gaza crowds surged toward Israel's border fence with the Hamas-ruled territory, in a no-go-zone that has been kept by Israel for years to prevent infiltrators. The crowd, many returning to their farm land, were testing new agreements mediated by the Egyptians between Hamas and Israel that led to a cease-fire after eight days of cross-bordering fighting. One Palestinian was killed and 19 injured. Bernat Armangue/AP
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One man alone used to employ more than 2,000 fishermen to bring in Gaza's daily catch, but Israel has reduced the areas in which Palestinians may fish, curbing the number of accessible fish.
Mounir Abu Hasira’s name is synonymous with fish in Gaza, where his grandfather once owned more than 50 percent of the fishing boats and employed more than 2,000 workers to bring in the daily catch.
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