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WIKILEAKS: Israel aimed to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse

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01/05/2011 12:07

WikiLeaks cable reveals: Officials planned to keep Gaza economy functioning at lowest possible level without causing humanitarian crisis.

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In the period before Operation Cast Lead, Israeli officials said the aim of the blockade of Gaza was to keep the Strip’s economy on the brink of collapse, a US diplomatic cable obtained by Norwegian paper Aftenposten revealed on Wednesday.

The cable, dated November 3, 2008, and released by whistle-blower web site WikiLeaks, suggested that Israeli intelligence agencies and politicians said that the plan was to keep the Gazan economy functioning at the lowest possible level without causing a humanitarian crisis.



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