Ban Ki-Moon calls for Israel to end Gaza blockade

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Source: National Post

KAMPALA/JERUSALEM -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Israel to lift its Gaza blockade, stressing if Israel had heeded international calls to end it the raid on a Gaza aid ship flotilla would not have happened.

“Had the Israeli government heeded to international calls and my own strong and urgent and persistent call to lift the blockade of Gaza, this would not have happened,” Mr. Ban told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday in Kampala.

He was in Kampala to attend a review conference of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Meanwhile, Israel detained or deported on Tuesday hundreds of activists who were on Turkish-backed aid ships seized en route to Gaza, and the U.N. called for impartial investigation into the deaths of nine people in the takeover.

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