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Arabs blame Israel for Gaza crisis
Arab foreign ministers said on Monday that Israel was fully responsibility for the deterioration in the Gaza Strip and demanded the Jewish state immediately lift its blockade, open crossing points and allow humanitarian supplies to reach the people.
- Agencies
- Published: 13:39 January 28, 2008
Cairo: Arab foreign ministers said on Monday that Israel was fully responsibility for the deterioration in the Gaza Strip and demanded the Jewish state immediately lift its blockade, open crossing points and allow humanitarian supplies to reach the people.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have traveled into Egypt in recent days after breaking through the Gaza-Egypt border fence.
The breakthrough happened days after Israel announced it was stopping fuel shipments to Gaza. "Israel, as an occupation power, is fully responsible for the deterioration of the situation in the Palestinian territories and should immediately stop all its continued aggressions against the civilians and end the blockade and the collective punishment policy," said a statement issued by the ministers at the end of their meeting in Cairo on Monday.
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