By KUNA,
Gaza : The deposed Palestinian government cited Tuesday Israeli pressures that led to the canceling of the visit of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Gaza Strip.
In a press release, the deposed government said that Israel banned Blair from entering Gaza, although he reached the borders, to prevent him from seeing and reporting the disaster cased by the “unjust” Israeli siege on the strip.
It also accused other parties, not named, of putting pressure so that Blair, the representative of the Middle East Diplomatic Quartet, does not see first hand the security and administrative situation in Gaza.
“The Strip will always be open for visitors who would like to see the magnitude of the suffering of the Palestinian people,” it noted.
Blair canceled a visit to north Gaza that was previously planned for Tuesday to visit several projects of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), including schools and a sewage project.