[ 06/03/2010 - 08:22 AM ]
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Amos Gilad, director of policy and political-military affairs at the Israel war ministry, is to head for Cairo soon to discuss means of tightening the blockage on arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip, Hebrew radio reported.
It said in its Friday night bulletin that Gilad is to head for Cairo next week to meet with senior officials in the Egyptian intelligence apparatus topped by its chief Omar Suleiman.
The broadcast said that other topics would be discussed such as resumption of PA talks with Israel, the Iranian issue and the prisoners exchange deal between the Palestinian resistance and Israel.
[ 06/03/2010 - 08:49 AM ]
DUBLIN, (PIC)-- Irish foreign minister Michael Martin has described the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip as "inhumane and unacceptable" in an opinion piece for the International Herald Tribune published on Friday.
Martin, who visited Gaza Strip last week, described the living conditions in the Strip as "medieval", adding, "The tragedy of Gaza is that it is fast in danger of becoming a tolerated humanitarian crisis".
“[It is] a situation that is proving extremely difficult to remedy or ameliorate due to the blockade and the wider ramifications of efforts to try and achieve political progress in the Middle East,” Martin, who was the first European foreign minister to enter the Mediterranean coastal strip in over a year, said.
He will raise the issue at an EU foreign ministers meeting in Cordoba, Spain, this weekend, he said. The European Union Commission and EU member states are the largest aid donors to Gaza.
“What I witnessed in Gaza, amidst all the rubble and devastation, was a population traumatized and reduced to poverty by an unjust and completely counterproductive blockade,” Martin said.
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