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On a sunny Friday in August last year, Judah Abughorab paddled a small, flat boat over the blue Mediterranean Sea about 100 yards off the Gaza Strip's sandy shore.
He doesn't really like to eat fish, but catching them is the unemployed construction worker's favorite pastime.
That day, he netted a half a dozen. Then, through the clear water, he spotted something that made him look again.
"It looked like a person," he says. "Eyes, a face, hands, fingers."
Abughorab says he was scared, but dove five yards down to have a closer look. One touch told him the human form was made of metal.
"I realized it was a statue," he says. "I tried to move it, but it was so heavy I thought it was tied to the bottom."