| 26.01.2009 | 14:00 UTC

EU "tired" of paying to rebuild Gaza over and over

A senior EU official has said that the Hamas movement bears an overwhelming responsibility for the war in Gaza. The AFP news agency reports that Louis Michel, the European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid who is visiting  the town of Jabaliya in Gaza's north, has said that the EU is tired of providing funds to rebuild infrastructure in Gaza that keeps being systematically destroyed. The EU has spent around three billion euros in Palestine in the past eight years. Michel labelled the Islamist Hamas group a terrorist movement and warned that if peace had any chance of succeeding, that Hamas must accept the right of Israel to exist and abandon its armed struggle.

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