Fourteen-year-old Mazal Dahan looked up shyly and smiled as campers sang Hebrew songs at Camp Gan Israel in Gaithersburg, a summer camp for Jewish children… Dahan and four cousins are among 11 girls from the Gaza Strip who are spending the month at camp and living with host families in Gaithersburg. Ten boys

from their Southern Israeli town of Sderot are attending a day camp in Northern Virginia. The camps are covering the children’s expenses… The hope is to give the youngsters a respite from life under siege — and some spiritual sustenance to help them back at home.

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