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I am planning on visting Palestine next year. How safe is it. I want to take my 14 year old daughter. Does anyone want to penpal about Gaza experiences? Thanks!

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well i want to go with my kids and visit Bint hamatee i never seen her so me and my husband want to go but he has jordanian passport so impossible for him to go, and me and my kids have american citizens and the american consulate says u have to sign a paper that says ur going in on ur own free will, since its very dangerous, but i would not go cuz now i heard that no one is being let in anway, so honey go to ramallah i love ramallah its a beautiful city and it has everything and im sure ur daughter would love to visit there
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If you do not consider the threats of getting kidnapped by terrorists or getting caught up in deadly infighting between Hamas and Fatah to be dangerous, then I suppose it is an otherwise safe place.

Cases-in-point:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/world/meast/05/0...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6...
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unless you speak fluent Arabic and you look like Middle Eastern I would not go there.

Their are groups that are currently kidnapping westerners who are in the country.

I would also never ever bring a child to such a place.
Things are still pretty volatile. Recently a terrorist group (PA sources claim it to be al-qaida) opened fire on an elementary school where a celebration was being held. One man was killed and 6 others were injured (though as far as I know, no children were harmed). Westerners are often kidnapped for a day or so or more, including journalists. I would suggest avoiding the area, at least for the time being.
been there before, i dont advise you to go to Gaza what so ever! things aren't stable there and very dangerous, i think if you want to take a visit go there in 1-2 years time, problems occur there almost everyday, many get either wounded, kidnapped or even killed! or you can just wait until the new government is formed which will take place soon in a few months, that would probably make things better
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