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EU foreign policy chief tours Gaza, checks embargo (AP)

July 18th, 2010

European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, speaks during a joint press conference with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, not seen, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, July 17, 2010. Ashton says Gaza's borders must open to enable the territory's battered economy to recover. Ashton is to tour Gaza on Sunday to gauge whether Israel's decision to ease its 3-year-old blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory has improved the lives of ordinary Gazans. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)AP - The international community must pressure Israel to go beyond easing its Gaza blockade and throw open the territory’s long-blockaded borders, the EU foreign policy chief said after a tour of the Hamas-run coastal strip.


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