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Arab League Chief Makes First Visit to Gaza

   VOA News 13 June 2010
   Amr Moussa, Sedcretary General of the Arab League

Photo: AP

   Amr Moussa, Sedcretary General of the Arab League

   The Arab world's most senior diplomat has arrived in the Gaza Strip.
   Arab  League  Secretary-General Amr Moussa was greeted at the Egyptian
   border  town  of  Rafah  Sunday  by  officials  from Hamas and various
   Palestinian factions.
   The chief of the 22-member Arab League said Israel's siege on the Gaza
   Strip "must be broken."
   Moussa  is  expected to hold talks with top Hamas leader Ismail Haniya
   at  his  home during the one-day visit.  He is also scheduled to meet
   with  Palestinian  families  who lost relatives during the Israel-Gaza
   war.
   Some  1,300  Palestinians  and 13 Israelis died during the 3-week war,
   which began in December 2008.Â
   Moussa  is  the  highest-ranking Arab official to visit Gaza since the
   Islamic  militant  group  Hamas  seized  control  of  the  Palestinian
   territory in 2007.
   Moussa's  visit  comes  two  weeks after Israel's soldiers killed nine
   pro-Palestinian  activists  who  were  part of a humanitarian flotilla
   that  was trying to break Israel's three-year-old blockade and deliver
   aid directly to Gaza.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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