Important News
- Cabinet condemns Israel’s resumption of land settlement process in Area “C”; reaffirms support for displaced families in Tulkarm
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- Israeli forces attack Palestinians with tear gas and stun grenades in Hebron, causing suffocation cases and fire to break out
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- Elderly sustains injury in colonists’ attack in southern West Bank
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- Prisoners' organizations: Escalating and systematic violations against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons in April
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- Israeli colonists continue attacking Palestinians, their properties in Masafer Yatta
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- Palestinian national heritage committee calls on UNESCO to immediately intervene to stop Israeli violations at Sebastia archaeological site
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- PCBS: 77 years after Nakba, Palestinian population has increased nearly 10-fold
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- German Government alarmed by developments in Gaza
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- One killed, others injured in an Israeli airstrike east of Gaza city
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- Cabinet holds meeting in Tulkarm; PM affirms government continues efforts to alleviate residents' suffering
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Lavrov Calls for Ending Blockade on Gaza Strip
RUSSIA, February 2, 2008 (WAFA)- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said it is hardly possible to spur on peace settlement without ending the blockade of Gaza Strip.
"It is hardly possible to make real progress towards peace without the soonest lift of the blockade of the sector, an improvement of living conditions on all the lands of the Palestinian National Authority, and the end of terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians," Lavrov was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.
"It is important to overcome the Palestinian split, which complicates the achievement of agreements on key issues of the Israeli-Palestinian agenda," he said.
A real move towards peace would not be possible while Israel continues blockading food and fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip, and Palestine carries out almost daily rocket attacks on Israeli border regions, Lavrov was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying during a telephone conference of the Middle East Quartet of mediators -- the United States, Russia, the UN and the European Union.
