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Zoo sells lion cubs to family in Gaza (21 images)

Palestinian Saad al-Jamal bought a pair of lion cubs and is keeping them as pets inside their family house in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 19, 2015. Al-Jamal said he bought the 2-month-old cubs from the Rafah Zoo. His grandchildren are enjoying their new pets.

The cubs' parents were believed to have been smuggled into Gaza through a tunnel along the border with Egypt nearly three years ago. Ahmed Juma, owner of the zoo, said the zoo could no longer provide for the cubs so he sold them to Al-Jamal.



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