That's right. A lot of people don't realise how little Gaza is. You could walk across it in two hours or less and cycle its length in less than an hour. There are constant hassles in the border area between armed Israeli troops acting like thugs and ya-booing from Gazan teenagers. Kids getting shot on very slender pretexts is commonplace in the border area, even occasionally by unmanned remote-control weapons. You don't have to be doing too much wrong in Gaza to be condemned to summary execution. Yeah, you can get riled by kids chucking stones and making shooting noises at you as they point sticks. I suppose you can also get riled seeing soldiers taunting you and threatening to kill you like fish in a barrel in your open prison (especially when you are almost certain to have known friends, relatives and teachers killed by the same army). Talking of provocation, an old bloke in Gaza was photographed carrying a placard that read You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all but say that I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.