[ 03/06/2010 - 08:44 AM ]
BETHLEHEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip, now in its fourth consecutive year, has brought about counterproductive results, Tony Blair, the international quartet committee's envoy, said.
He told Reuters on Wednesday that the siege did not succeed in bringing about the release of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Blair urged Israel to end its blockade on Gaza, adding that it was counterproductive.
He said that Israel should allow entry of necessary material to rebuild destroyed homes, sewage networks, electricity grids and water pipelines and allow investments to flourish.
Hurting the people in Gaza was not harming Hamas, Blair opined.
[ 03/06/2010 - 09:25 AM ]
NEW YORK, (PIC)-- The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Israel to lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip immediately, describing the siege as an "unbearable mistake".
Moon, speaking to reporters in New York on Wednesday night after returning from a tour of Brazil, Malawi and Uganda, said that Israel should explain in detail the raid on the ships that were trying to break the siege on Gaza while carrying 10,000 tons of aid material.
The UN top official said that he would need some time before taking a decision to form an independent investigation committee into the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla.
He added, "We must do whatever is necessary to avoid an accident of this kind, the parties concerned must act responsibly and in accordance with international law.”
“Had the Israeli government heeded to international calls and my own strong and urgent and persistent call to lift the blockade of Gaza, this would not have happened,” Moon told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday in Kampala.
"So what we have today is extremely bad, but in a certain viewpoint of realpolitik and understanding exactly how Israel operates, it may be better than what could happen if the existing regime in Egypt or a newly elected one opens the borders with Gaza in the present conditions of Palestine, without any international guarantees that Palestine is going to be autonomous in controlling its own borders for the good of the people in Palestine and not to serve factions whose agendas are not acceptable to any patriot."
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