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No room at the inn

Reporting on the Gaza problem from Rafah in Egypt. NBC News Producer Charlene Gubash, tells us how it is for her Palestinian colleagues,
On Saturday, hotels were ordered to turn away Palestinian guests. Our Palestinian colleague was forced to spend a cold night in the car because the hotel refused to accept him. "I am Palestinian. I am used to it," he said wryly. And policemen now chase after Palestinian boys who had managed to circumvent checkpoints on foot, rounding them up and sending them in metal-sided police trucks back to Gaza. link