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Gaza apartments become emblem of Arab leaders' frustration with Arafat.
Byline: Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
SHEIK ZAYED TOWNSHIP, Gaza Strip _ Kayed Hammad's dream of living in this community of limestone and marble facades, with its landscaped courtyards, is fading in the face of corruption and Arab disaffection with the government of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
The housing compound is an oasis among crumbling Palestinian neighborhoods battered by four years of clashes with Israel. There's a feeling of safety here in beige apartment buildings free of the gunmen, graffiti and bullet holes that are prevalent across the rest of the 139-square-mile Gaza Strip. Even Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships, which routinely pound nearby hamlets, have steered clear of the new housing complex named for Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates, which bankrolled it.
"When you are there, you don't believe you are in Gaza," said Hammad, a 40-year-old aid worker from Jabaliya, who applied to the Palestinian Housing Ministry six months ago for one of the 736 apartments ...
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