Gaza zoo resorts to displaying stuffed animals

A stuffed lion at Khan Younis zoo

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23 April 2012 Last updated at 12:21 ET Help

A zoo owner in Gaza has had to resort to displaying stuffed animals, because of a shortage of live ones.

Mohamed Owaida from the Khan Younis Zoo says it is proving too costly to feed his living animals, and he can not always get live specimens through the Israeli blockade of the Gaza strip.

Ghada Nassef reports.

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