2014-10-16

Who benefits from billions pledged for Gaza reconstruction?


Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the opening session of the Gaza donor conference in Cairo on 12 October
 
A donor conference hosted in Cairo on Sunday to raise funds for the reconstruction of war-devastated Gaza has boasted $5.4 billion in pledges from various Western and Arab governments.
   Yet Israel is the true beneficiary of this aid money. The self-declared international community has once again footed the reconstruction bill as it arms Israel with the weaponry and ensures it the impunity that only rewards its brutal onslaught on Gaza and essentially guarantees its repetition.
Read more in The Electronic Intifada 
 

Nearly a third of Gazans had been displaced by the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants. Secretary of State John Kerry and other diplomats stressed the need for a broad peace deal.

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