Gaza Zoo, Too Poor To Buy Zebras, Paints Stripes On Donkeys (PHOTOS)
Palestinian Mahmud Barghut, owner of the ‘Happy Land Zoo’, stands next to a ‘Gaza-made zebra’, a donkey painted with stripes, in a cage at the zoo just outside Gaza City on October 3, 2009. Faced with an Israeli blockade, the Palestinian zookeepers were unable to bring in real zebras. Their solution was to paint a couple of donkeys at the zoo, which have become symbols of life under the Israeli blockade, a local attraction and a bit of a joke.