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Gaza "stipped", Nikolaj Nielsen

Palestinian donor nations are meeting today in London to discuss the current humanitarian crisis affecting 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip. Washington is mounting pressure on Arab League nations to fulfill their Palestinian donor promise of $717.1 million of which only $153.2 has been collected. Three-quarters of residents of the Gaza Strip are registered refugees. Only a bare minimum of medicine and food are allowed in while petrol and diesel have ceased altogether since June 10. The quartet (US, Russia, EU, UN) will also discuss the Annapolis negotiations and Palestinian economic development in the West Bank.  Read the rest of this post...

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