Monday, June 27, 2016

Turkey PM Binali Yildirim: Gaza siege largely lifted. Benjamin Netanyahu, however, denied that the siege would be removed

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has said that the Israeli embargo on Gaza has been "largely lifted" as part of the reconciliation deal between Israel and Turkey.

The Middle East powers announced details of the deal after talks in Rome on Monday aimed at ending their bitter six-year rift over a deadly Israeli army raid on a Turkish flotilla to Gaza in 2010.

The deal will see Israel provide economic compensation worth $20m to the families of the 10 Turkish citizens killed by Israeli forces who raided the six-ship flotilla heading to break the Israeli siege on Gaza and provide humanitarian aid to the almost two million Palestinians living there.

In addition to the compensation, the agreement will allow Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid, build a 200-bed hospital, a housing project and a desalination plant in Gaza, under the condition that materials go through the Israeli port of Ashdod first.

"To this end, our first ship loaded with over 10,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid will leave for Israel's Ashdod port on Friday," Yildirim said.

During a news conference in Ankara, Yildirim said that with these concessions the siege on Gaza was "largely lifted".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, denied that the siege would be removed, at a parallel news conference in Rome...
 Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
27/6/16
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