Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Israel lets 14,000 tons of building material into Gaza

Israel allowed 14,000 tons of building material into war-devastated Gaza Wednesday, the defense ministry said of the largest single shipment since a July-August conflict ended in the blockaded territory.

COGAT, the coordinating body for Israeli government policy in Palestine, told AFP that some 354 trucks passed through the Kerem Shalom goods crossing in the southern Gaza Strip carrying "construction materials," without elaborating.

Under Israel's eight-year blockade of Gaza, the entry of cement and iron has mostly been banned, with the Jewish state fearing such materials could be used by Palestinian militants to make weapons and build attack tunnels.

But the international community has warned that without serious reconstruction of the coastal territory, where Israeli bombardment destroyed or damaged more than 100,000 homes during the 50-day war, another conflict could be looming.

The United Nations says that 100,000 Gaza residents are still homeless since last summer's war, which killed about 2,200 Palestinians and 73 people on the Israeli side.

Militant groups in Gaza, under the de facto rule of the Islamist movement Hamas, fired thousands of rockets at Israel in the conflict and have vowed to rearm.

 AFP
dailystar.com.lb
29/4/15
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1 comment :

  1. La ONU insta a Israel a levantar el bloqueo a Gaza...

    El enviado de la ONU para Oriente Medio, Nickolay Mladenov, ha instado hoy a las facciones palestinas a unirse y a Israel a levantar el bloqueo que mantiene sobre Gaza en su primera visita a este pequeño territorio palestino.

    "Creo firmemente que la causa del pueblo palestino se verá perjudicada si la división, la falta de unidad, no se soluciona tan pronto como sea posible", ha dicho Mladenov.

    "Espero que la ONU pueda apoyar los esfuerzos para fortalecer esta unidad", ha afirmado a la prensa, en la ciudad de Gaza, Mladenov, que fue nombrado en febrero.

    Gaza se enfrenta a una crisis humanitaria meses después de una devastadora guerra de 50 días entre Israel y facciones palestinas. La comunidad internacional ha advertido de que pueden producirse nuevos conflictos si no se alcanza la reconciliación palestina e Israel no levanta el bloqueo que mantiene sobre la franja......http://sptnkne.ws/gRW
    30/4/15

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