EU envoy urges Israel to open Gaza borders

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Source: BBC News

Israel must go beyond easing its blockade of Gaza and throw open its long-closed border, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has said.

Lady Ashton urged the international community to pressure Israel to end the blockade.

She is the most senior Western official to go to Gaza since Israel partly eased curbs on goods entering the territory.

Israel tightened its blockade in 2007 after the Islamist Hamas movement seized control of Gaza.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10675713

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1. Recall the last visit of the Baroness to Gaza back in March

Lady Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, the European Union's top diplomat, when she went there more to try to relaunch the peace project than to lift the blockade. Words she delivered at Cairo were "unacceptable" to Israel's foreign affairs minister Lieberman, and "nutty and ridiculous" was Lady Ashton's intention to go to Gaza, still under siege now a thousand days and nights. While the European Union was being told to pay up and shut up, and Bibi's brother-in-law was calling Obama an anti-semite who doesn't love Israel.

So that was pretty much the happy climate there in March. Think it's any happier today?

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