"O Allah, make us like our freedom fighters,
who have become martyrs in Your path."

(A prayer made in the Al-Huda wa al-Nur Kindergarten, Gaza)

GAZA is a grimy city with unkempt streets. The unemployed crowd along the narrow streets. Six thousand years ago, this city at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea was a port and important trading hub—the crossroads of the Horus Route, as one historian put it. But that was the past. Its place