Mohammad Joma'a, a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, found himself obliged to abandon a zoo project he started 18 years ago since he no longer can afford feeding the animals.
The zoo, a home to lions, monkeys, ostriches, hyenas and deer, was the first of its kind in Gaza and the second in the Palestinian territories.
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The last survivor of a Gaza zoo, where dozens of animals died of starvation and children petted stuffed carcasses, left on Wednesday for sanctuary outside the Palestinian territory.
Economic hardship deepened by war with Israel brought death to most of the menagerie of 200 at the privately owned complex in Khan Younes, in the southern part of the enclave.
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