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August 19, 2014

U.N. Agency: Gaza Can't Return to Blockade Conditions 
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Speaking in Gaza, Pierre Krahenbuhl, the head of the U.N. agency for
Palestinian refugees, said the blockade needs to be lifted for Gaza's
survival.

Pierre Krahenbuhl: "It is not enough to have a cessation of hostilities
and then go back to pre-existing conditions under the blockade, which on
my first visits I already described here before the conflict as being
unsustainable in human terms. It is not possible to have 830,000 people
and now 1.1 million people out of 1.8 million people in Gaza under
UNRWA's food distribution list and WFP's food distribution list. People
have to understand in the world what that means to have 1.1 million
people assisted, and I take no pride in that figure."

 

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