Donkeys turn binmen as Gaza fuel crisis bites On a sweltering November afternoon, 10-year-old Alaa skips barefoot along a road in Gaza City picking up festering bags of rubbish and throwing them onto his father's donkey-drawn cart. This has become the face of rubbish collection in Gaza since a critical fuel shortage has idled all the regular rubbish trucks, leaving the job to those with a slightly more primitive form of transportation. Images and soundbites