A Palestinian man shouts as he hold up his empty cooking gas canister as he waits to fill it from a gas station in Gaza May 6, 2008. Gaza has been in the grips of a fuel shortage for weeks, the result of sharp Israeli cutbacks in supplies to the Hamas-controlled territory as well as a strike by an association of Palestinian petrol owners over Israeli supply limits. Reuters Pictures 18 months ago

A Palestinian man shouts as he hold up his empty cooking gas canister as he waits to fill it from a gas station in Gaza May 6, 2008. Gaza has been in the grips of a fuel shortage for weeks, the result of sharp Israeli cutbacks in supplies to the Hamas-controlled territory as well as a strike by an association of Palestinian petrol owners over Israeli supply limits.

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