Israel repeats promise to improve life in Gaza and the West Bank

Minister without a Portfolio Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud), who headed the Israeli delegation to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine, presented a list of steps that Israel is supposedly seeking to implement to improve the Palestinians’ economic reality during the agency’s annual meeting at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

 

However, several of these planned steps are not pursued, either because they are blocked by Israel’s security-based limitations that it places on the Palestinians, or due to the Palestinians’ mishandling of such initiatives.

 

Dozens of foreign affairs ministers took part in the meeting, among them US Secretary of State John Kerry, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, ministers from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Tunisia and more.

 

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