Tag: humanitarian aid


  • U.S. Shuns Hamas Representatives; Another Attack in Jerusalem; Round and Round the Cycle Goes

    Al Jazeera English interviewed me the other day on American intervention so far in Gaza. Here is the story:

    The United States is set to pledge $900m for the Palestinians at a donors’ conference in Egypt, but only a third of that will go towards reconstruction in the Gaza Strip and none of the money will go to Hamas, who rule the territory.

    Robert Wood, a spokesman for the US state department, said the US would pledge $300m at Monday’s conference on reconstructing Gaza, to meet “urgent” humanitarian needs in the territory after Israel’s military onslaught in December.

    Wood said the $300m would be funnelled through the UN and other organisations.

    “Hamas is not getting any of this money,” Wood told reporters in the Egyptian coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheik, where Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, arrived on Sunday on the first leg of a week-long trip to

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