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Four out of five children in Gaza suffer from emotional distress, Save the Children said on Wednesday, 15 years after Israel slapped a strict blockade on the occupied Palestinian territory. Israel imposed the measure in June 2007, as fighters of the Islamist Hamas movement took control of the densely populated enclave. Since then, both Israel and Egypt have continued to severely restrict the flow of people and materials to and from Gaza. In a report called “Trapped”, Britain-based Save the Children said the mental health of Gazan children has continued to deteriorate. Fifteen years of life und…