The European Union urged Israel to lift its economic blockade of the Palestinian Authority. The closures Israel imposed as a response to the ongoing Palestinian violence are “having a devastating effect on the Palestinian economy and, as night follows day, on political stability,” the European commissioner for external affairs, Chris Patten, told the European Parliament.
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