Article December 18, 2000 Issue

I needed to go into Gaza

A woman prays in the middle of a violent demonstration.

Martha Roadstrum Moffett

I was assigned to the Middle East about ten years ago. That's the point at which the Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israeli rule of the occupied territories was reaching its peak.

I saw that I was soon going to be a target.

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