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June 2, 2010

Lifting Gaza Blockade Would Have Prevented Flotilla Deaths
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All the permanent members of the Security Council except for the United
States have called for Israel’s three-year blockade of the Gaza Strip to
be lifted. On a visit to Uganda, United Nations Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon renewed his demand for an end to the blockade.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: "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. Therefore, it is again very important and urgently required
that Israelis would immediately lift this blockade of Gaza."



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