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quinta-feira, 18 de Março de 2010 11:34

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Her visit comes as the US and Israel try to bridge divisions over Israeli plans for new building in occupied East Jerusalem.

The Palestinians have pulled out of indirect talks because of the plan.

Israel's building announcement has provoked fresh violence in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Mrs Clinton has described the announcement - made while US Vice-President Joe Biden was in Israel last week - as "insulting".

She has made a series of demands of Mr Netanyahu - on the housing project and on showing his commitment to peace talks.

On Thursday Mr Crowley said that Mr Netanyahu had yet to respond.

The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli economic blockade since 2007, when the Islamist movement Hamas took power.

Hamas militants have fired thousands of rockets into Israel in the past decade.

In 2008 Israel launched a three-week offensive against Gaza which killed more than 1,000 Palestinians and caused widespread damage to its infrastructure.

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quinta-feira, 18 de Março de 2010 11:23

"It's phenomenally important because people at the policy-making level have to have that first-hand experience to really unravel the complexity, and then also to see the simplicity of the plight of the people and the urgency for action," he said.

"We have to have action. A thousand days and a thousand nights of a medieval siege is far too much. It's a shame - it's a disgrace."

Baroness Ashton is on a regional tour that began in Cairo and also includes Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.

On Wednesday she visited Jerusalem where she met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and held a joint press conference with Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman.

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