The goat trade is a good business in Gaza. Every couple of weeks, Abdel Rahman and his business partner, Jaser Abu Said, buy half a dozen young goats imported from Israel and sell them for meat.
Last time, they got something unusual. Of the five goats they bought, for about $600 each, one was a hermaphrodite.
By all appearances, it was male, with a large build and visible male sex organs. But it also had udders. And gave milk.
"We noticed right after we bought it," said Rahman, in a tin shack rich with a meaty goat scent right next to his animal pens. "We couldn't give it back.