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UN halts Gaza food aid over fuel cutoff; Israel blames Hamas
 The United Nations stopped distributing food to Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after its vehicles ran out of fuel because of the Israeli blockade, a U.N. official said. Israeli countered that fuel is available, but said the Islamic group Hamas ruling Gaza is preventing it from being distributed.A spokesman for the United Nations' Relief Works Agency, Adnan Abu Hasna, said 700,000 Palestinians won't be getting packages of basic foods because the agency could not bring in new shipments or distribute them without fuel for its vehicles. "All of our regular food operations have stopped because of the fuel shortage," he said. Posted by: Fred 2008-04-25 |
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