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UN aid chief calls for end to Gaza blockade
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CANBERRA, Australia – The U.N. humanitarian chief on Tuesday said Israel needs to be persuaded to ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip, calling it "inflammatory" in the wake of last week's deadly commando raid on an aid flotilla.
"We cannot make Israel do that ... we have to persuade Israel that it's in her interest," John Holmes told the Australian Associated Press during a visit to the capital, Canberra, for a meeting of donors.
He said the 3-year-old blockade "is an extra inflammatory aspect of the Middle East crisis. The effects it's having on the population of Gaza ... is devastating. There is a bit of a tinderbox there."
Gaza has been under an Israeli and Egyptian blockade since Hamas militants seized power in a violent takeover of the seaside strip in 2007. Egypt said Monday that it will leave its border with the Palestinian territory open indefinitely for humanitarian aid and restricted travel.
Holmes urged Israel to accept that it must ease the border restrictions and said it was distressing that people died last week while on a humanitarian mission.
Nine pro-Palestinian activists _ eight Turks and a Turkish-American _ were killed after Israeli naval commandos stormed their ship trying to reach Gaza. Israel says its soldiers began shooting only after a mob of activists attacked them.
But the activists and their supporters claimed Israeli commandos needlessly opened fire.
The raid triggered a storm of criticism of Israel and increasing pressure for an independent investigation.
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