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Der Standard · 2009-03-03
Omar Shaban, Caritas’s representative in the Gaza Strip, made serious accusations against the authority of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, saying there was no reconstruction plan that had been discussed with those on the ground in Gaza. He added that the Gaza Strip was not represented at all at the international donors’ conference in Sharm el-Sheikh and that the Palestinian Authority government had only contacted a few individuals to request statistical information on the damage.
Omar Shaban, Caritas’s representative in the Gaza Strip, made serious accusations against the authority of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, saying there was no reconstruction plan that had been discussed with those on the ground in Gaza. He added that the Gaza Strip was not represented at all a…
Gaza/Berlin - Omar Shaban, the Caritas representative in the Gaza Strip, leveled serious accusations against the authority of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an interview with Berlin’s *Tagesspiegel*. “There is no plan for reconstruction that has been discussed with us on the ground. We are very frustrated about this,” he said. At the international donor conference in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, the Gaza Strip had “not been represented at all.” “The government of Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority merely contacted a few individuals to ask for statistical information about the damage.”
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