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April 15, 2015

Aid Groups Seek Global Effort to End Israeli Blockade of Gaza 
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A coalition of 45 aid groups is appealing for global pressure to end the
Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Association of International
Development Agencies says reconstruction is barely underway on the
thousands of homes destroyed in last summer's six-week Israeli assault.
Meanwhile, living conditions have only worsened as Israel continues the
siege and foreign aid is at a trickle. Just 26 percent of $3.5 billion
pledged at a donors' conference in October has arrived. The groups say
that without open borders and a durable Israel-Hamas ceasefire, "a
return to conflict — and the cycles of damage and donor-funded
reconstruction that accompany it — is inevitable."

 

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