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EU suspends Gaza aid due to "suicidal" fighting
14 Jun 2007 11:56:07 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Ingrid Melander

BRUSSELS, June 14 (Reuters) - The European Commission
has suspended humanitarian aid to Gaza because of "suicidal"
fighting among Palestinian factions and will only resume it
if violence stops, the EU's top aid official said on Thursday.

"The humanitarian situation is catastrophic, we have had to
withdraw our (aid) operators," European Aid and Development
Commissioner Louis Michel told Reuters. "It's dramatic and
it's unacceptable."

"The belligerents must understand that this is suicidal," he
said of the fighting between the Islamist Hamas movement
and the Fatah party for control of the Gaza Strip.

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Asked what it would take for the European Commission aid
staff to go back to Gaza, Michel said: "Security."

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