Israeli polls block UN aid to Gaza
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:12:24 GMT
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A Palestinian woman waits to receive humanitarian supplies from UNRWA
headquarters in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza.
The UN aid agency in Gaza, UNRWA, says Israeli elections will prevent the
group from aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip until Wednesday.
UNRWA will resume aid deliveries to the population in Gaza on Wednesday due to
the closure of crossing points amid general elections on Tuesday, said John
Ging, the UNRWA director of operations in Gaza, on Monday.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has agreed to continue aid
operations in the impoverished Palestinian sliver since Hamas has returned
humanitarian supplies it had seized from UN warehouses last week.
The UN had suspended aid deliveries to Gaza after Hamas seized tones of food
supplies and 3,500 blankets.
"The Hamas authorities in Gaza have returned to the UNRWA warehouses in Gaza
City and Rafah all of the aid supplies," said UNRWA spokesman Christopher
Gunness.
Hamas has denied the charges, saying that the incident was a result of a
misunderstanding between drivers and a lack of co-ordination.
UNRWA distributes food to 900,000 of the 1.5 million Gaza residents.
Meanwhile, Radhika Coomaraswamy, the UN special representative for children
and armed conflict, urged Israel to allow aid supplies and human rights
textbooks, to enter the impoverished territory.
"We continue to appeal for common sense to prevail and for priority to be
given to the needs, first and foremost, of the children and then the rest of
the population," she told reporters following a four-day visit to Gaza, the
West Bank and southern Israel.
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