"gazans" is not an English word.
It is not a correct and usable word in written English.
Many Gazans I met believed Israel had lost double the number of soldiers its press recorded.
Israeli shells have destroyed sewage and desalination plants, knocked out Gaza's sole electricity station, and clobbered what was left of Gaza's factories and export industries.Although Hamas has a core of popular support, many Gazans feel it shares the blame for the catastrophe.
Many Gazans, most of whom are young, have never been beyond its fraught borders.A Scottish journalist and author of the prize-winning 2003 book "Hearing Birds Fly", about her time in Mongolia, Ms Waugh arrived in Gaza to the sounds of Israeli shelling.
The rudimentary rockets have maimed more Gazans than Israelis.
Hamas is much more powerful in Gaza, and even within Hamas the West Bankers are more willing to hint at a compromise with Israel than the Gazans.
He repeats that last phrase several times.Some Gazans grumble about the Hamas forces' poor performance.
Gazans I spoke to wanted their sons and daughters to go to university.
Gazans are materially cut off from the world economy, just as in Cuba: everything patched up and odd flashes of modernity amid an economy trapped in the 1970s – the occasional new car alongside battered Volvos and even more battered donkeys.
"When you look at the fact that 67% of Gazans were dependent on food aid even before the recent situation, it tells you something about the economic realities of what is going on inside Gaza.
Asked on BBC's Radio 4's Today programme where Gazans should flee to once warnings are issued, Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner said residents were told of specific areas where they would be safe.
The report buoyed weary Gazans' flagging morale.
