EU washes its hands of Gaza

‘After 10 years of Israeli blockade, conditions for two million Palestinians trapped in the Gaza Strip are by all accounts worse than ever.
Israel’s blockade, according to the human rights group B’Tselem, has consigned Gaza’s residents “to living in abject poverty under practically inhuman conditions unparalleled in the modern world.”
Yet the European Union, which markets itself as a champion of freedom, democracy and human rights, has washed its hands of the people there.
After four successive days of reductions, Israel has now cut the electricity it supplies to the Gaza Strip by 60 percent.
This comes on top of chronic shortages that meant most households only had about four hours of electricity a day.’
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