is food going to be allowed in? On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Robert Naiman <[email protected]> wrote: > Israel to allow clothes, shoes into blockaded Gaza > Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, writing by Douglas Hamilton; editing > by Philippa Fletcher > Reuters, Monday, March 29, 2010; 9:14 AM > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032900904.html > > Gaza - Israel will allow a shipment of clothes and shoes to be > delivered to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for the first time in its > almost three-year-old tight blockade of the enclave, Palestinian > officials said on Monday. They said the first 10 truckloads would be > arriving via the Israeli-controlled Gaza border point on Thursday. > > Israel is under international pressure to relax its blockade, which > the United Nations says punishes Gaza's 1.5 million people over their > leaders - the Islamist group Hamas, who are pledged to Israel's > destruction. [A spectacuarly misleading characterization of Hamas, > whose leaders have publicly and repeatedly stated their willingness to > accept a two-state solution on the 1967 borders. It seems likely that > this characterization is due to a Reuters editor, rather than the > reporter - JFP.] > > Israel prohibits shipments of cement and steel to Gaza on the grounds > that Hamas could use them for military purposes. Its long list of > controlled goods also includes items that critics say have no apparent > military value, such as children's crayons and books. > > Gaza has been getting most of its consumer goods via tunnels from > neighboring Egypt operated by smugglers who add on hefty surcharges. > Gaza merchants said 10 truckloads would not fill their stocks and > demanded that Israel release goods long held in its sea ports. > [...] > > -- > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] > > 6 minute video: highlights of the House Afghanistan debate > http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/endthewar > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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