Senior EU officials warn Gaza

Widespread despondency in the Gaza Strip could lead to a return to the kind of violence seen this summer, the EU’s representative to the West Bank and Gaza said on Wednesday.

 

John Gatt-Rutter, who visited the Gaza Strip on Monday and met with four Palestinian Authority ministers, NGO representatives, UNRWA officials, and human rights activists, said the feeling was that the conditions in Gaza have not changed since before Operation Protective Edge and, if anything, have gotten worse.

 

Because little has happened since the cease-fire to improve the situation, “there is a sense of desperation,” he said.

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