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European diplomats are trying to help. Germany, France and Britain are pushing a plan offering a secure sea route from Gaza to Cyprus, perhaps by using Greek roll-on-roll-off vessels. Apparently they could land on Gaza’s shores within weeks. The plan also envisages a revival of the European Union’s border-assistance mission, EUBAM, a moribund monitoring initiative that briefly oversaw Gaza’s crossing point to Egypt at Rafah, but could in future also monitor crossings to Israel. That would provide the Palestinians with some access to international trade, and offer Israel some guarantees against Hamas’s rearmament. Such arrangements have been mentioned in agreements dating back to the Oslo accords in 1993, and again in 2000 and 2005.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:29:15 +0000

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