Somehow, I just can’t get that worked up about this:
Masked gunmen stormed into a club for United Nations workers in Gaza City on Sunday and blew up the drinking hall in a new sign of spiralling unrest ahead of a Palestinian election.
It was the first such attack in Gaza on a U.N. target and came against a backdrop of growing unease among foreigners.
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Gunmen burst into the U.N. club, one of the few places that alcohol is served in conservative Muslim Gaza. It had been closed for the day. The attackers tied up the security guard and struck him with gun butts.
Then they set explosives in front of the bar, unrolled a detonator cable and blew up the charges, ripping up the roof and shattering the windows.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
I had no trouble getting worked up about this, however:
The United Nations is generally viewed with sympathy Gaza. Its agency supporting Palestinian refugees and their descendants, more than half of Gaza’s 1.4 million population, is the second biggest employer after the Palestinian Authority.
How ridiculous.