Posted by: zanshin, 2008-12-06 02:32

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Date: 2008-11-21 (Friday)
Haaretz reported that Karen Abu Zayd, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) commissioner-general said Gaza faces a humanitarian "catastrophe" if Israel maintains its blockade. She called the current closure the gravest since the early days of the Second Intifada eight years ago. "It's been closed for so much longer than ever before....and we have nothing in our warehouses....It will be a catastrophe if this persists, a disaster."






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