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Despite Challenges, Gaza's American School Perseveres

The American School in Gaza, once the target of anti-Western attacks, has persevered in the face of various challenges, writes Asmaa al-Ghoul.
U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) listens to a Palestinian man during his visit to the destroyed American International School in the northern Gaza Strip February 19, 2009. Senator Kerry and two other lawmakers made a rare visit to the Gaza Strip on Thursday but insisted a boycott of its Hamas Islamist rulers remained intact.Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Kerry, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for president in 2004, and two members of the House of Representatives, Brian Baird and Keith Ellison, e
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Mohammed Haddad, a 12-year-old student in the American School in the Gaza Strip, kicks a soccer ball through the window of a third-grade classroom, breaking the glass. In the past, this never occurred, as the expansive playground at the school's former site was large enough for the ball to travel long distances without hitting anything fragile. However, that building, which was in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, was destroyed during the 2008-2009 war after it was bombed by Israeli F-16 jets. Now, the school is living a new reality. 

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