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Abbas calls for international force in Gaza
Source ::: Agencies

RAMALLAH, West Bank • Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called yesterday for an international force in the Gaza Strip, which is now controlled by the rival Hamas movement.

“We have insisted on the necessity of deploying an international force in the Gaza Strip to guarantee the delivery of humanitarian aid and to allow citizens to enter and leave freely,” Abbas said at a joint news conference in Ramallah after talks with visiting Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.

Abbas noted the estimated 4,000 Palestinians who have been blocked at the Rafah crossing terminal on the Egyptian border, shut for nearly a month since the Hamas takeover, 11 of whom are reported to have died in the deteriorating humanitarian conditions.

Prodi said a deployment of an international force would require agreement of all the parties involved and said the question “has not yet been examined in detail,” according to the Arabic translation of his remarks.

Abbas’ call threatened to further widen the yawning Palestinian chasm, as Hamas has warned that it would not accept any foreign troops in Gaza and would treat them as an occupying power.

The chief of Hamas’s parliamentary blok, Salah Al Bardawil, reaffirmed the position yesterday. “We will not accept the presence of an international force,” he said during a press conference in Gaza.

“The arrival of such a force would be a flagrant intervention in Palestinian affairs and a new occupation that we totally reject,” he said, accusing Abbas of “allying himself with foreigners against Hamas.”

Meanwhile, officials said yesterday that the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan postponed until July 25 their first visit to Israel on behalf of the Arab League to revive a long-stalled Arab peace initiative.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdelelah Al Khatib had tentatively planned to visit Israel on Thursday. But Aboul Gheit said the visit was postponed due to “special considerations” of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Egyptian state news agency Mena said.

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