These are days when to think of West Asia is to think of Gaza. The world imagines the people of Gaza to be its indigenous population, but the truth is that Israel drove out thousands of Palestinian families from the villages of Ashkelon and Beersheba in 1948 to Gaza, which was then under Egypt; and ever since the Six-Day War of 1967 when Israel captured Gaza, they have lived under Israeli hegemony. To this day, the region remains under blockade with Israeli supervision rea ching out to even the basic necessities such as water and electricity.