Turkish FM cancels Israel visit over Gaza trip
BayBak, Azerbaijan | 1379 days ago | Wednesday, 9th September , 2009 , 19:05 [pm] | Azerbaijan
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. | Ahmet Davutoglu “has let us know that he will not come in October to participate in an annual conference organised by President Shimon Peres,” an Israeli ministry official said.
The Israeli media said the visit was cancelled because Israel had refused to allow Davutoglu to enter the Gaza Strip from its territory unless he promised not to meet the democratically elected Hamas. |
The Turkish foreign minister has cancelled a visit to Israel, the Israeli foreign ministry said on Wednesday, over what media reports said was a refusal to let him visit the Gaza Strip.
Ahmet Davutoglu “has let us know that he will not come in October to participate in an annual conference organised by President Shimon Peres,” an Israeli ministry official said.
The Israeli media said the visit was cancelled because Israel had refused to allow Davutoglu to enter the Gaza Strip from its territory unless he promised not to meet the democratically elected Hamas.
Gaza emergency medical services say 1,382 mainly-civilian Palestinians were killed in the offensive, 447 of them under the age of 18.
Israel, which wants to crush any Palestinian liberation movement, responded to Hamas’s win in the elections with sanctions, and almost completely blockaded the impoverished coastal strip after Hamas seized power in 2007, although a ‘lighter’ siege had already existed before.
Gaza is still considered under Israeli occupation as Israel controls air, sea and land access to the Strip.worldbulletin
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