MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS SUMMER
A Palestinian father smokes a cigarette and drinks coffee next to his infant daughter who sleeps under a makeshift tent on the sands of the Mediterranean coast of Gaza City Friday July 27, 2001. Despite the 11 months of violence Israelis and Palestinians take a break to enjoy the Mediterranean beaches and the Dead Sea, where under growing tensions and in the case of Gaza under closure people try to make the best of their summer and carry on a normal life.