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"By function of this blockade, 1.5 million Palestinian men, women and children have been forcibly deprived of their most basic human rights for months. This is in direct contravention of international human rights and humanitarian law. It must end now."
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, was calling for an immediate end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

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