How low can you go? The United States wants the people of
Gaza to suffer so much that
they suspended 100 million bucks in aid to Egypt for
allowing them to get food, water medicines and more supplies.
The issue has now turned into a political
row between Egypt and Israel.
Matan Vilnai, the Israeli deputy defence minister,
said Israel gradually wants to relinquish responsibility for
Gaza, now that the territory's border
with Egypt had been blown open.
Egypt has angrily rejected the suggestion and
said it would not change border arrangements.
The blasts that made holes in Gaza's border with
Egypt came after the Israeli government blocked
fuel and aid shipments into Gaza beginning last week.
Hamas officials have denied ordering the explosions
that blasted open the border walls.
At the World Economic Forum convened in
Davos, Switzerland, Salam Fayyad,
whose government
is based in the West Bank and has no control over
Gaza, called the Israeli blockade of the
Gaza Strip "absolutely disastrous".
"This is a pressure cooker kind of situation and
a very damaging situation - one that threatens to
spiral out of control," he told delegates.
A series of Israeli air raids on Gaza over the past
10 days also claimed the lives of more than 40
Palestinian people.
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