A sedated lioness is pictured in a cage at a zoo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, during an evacuation by members of Four Paws, an international animal welfare charity, who are relocated animals in sanctuaries in Jordan. Forty animals including five lions are to be rescued from squalid conditions in the Gaza Strip, the animal welfare group said. The zoo made news in February this year when its owner revealed he had declawed one of the lions there, so that customers could pay to play with her

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