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 14 November 2008
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Gaza crossing remain closed for a ninth day: UNSCO

14/11/2008

All crossings into Gaza were closed Friday- including for fuel and aid workers.

The Office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) reports it has now been nine days in a row that commercial and humanitarian food deliveries have been kept out of Gaza.

Because the fuel pipelines were blocked Friday, parts of Gaza are now experiencing power cuts of 8 to 12 hours a day.

Among the items that the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is trying to get into Gaza is wool for a rehabilitation center, where blind women knit sweaters.

This is Donn Bobb reporting for United Nations Radio.

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