Trapped in Gaza, youths escape by chatting online (AFP)
6th Sep 2005, 21:10 GMT
AFP - Hani stays up past midnight to talk to Pam in an Internet chatroom. He is a 22-year-Palestinian, locked down by Israel in the Gaza Strip and banned by social convention from spending time with a woman.
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