International community pledges $3-billion for Gaza rebuilding

Mon, 03/02/2009 - 13:17
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International leaders gathered IN Egypt’s resort town of Sharm El Sheikh, in a conference aimed at raising money to rebuild the Gaza Strip after it was devastated as a result of Israel’s recent 23-day long attack. Nearly three billion dollars were pledged in the day-long conference – almost one-third of that money from the United States. But not all the money pledged today will be going to rebuild Gaza: as FSRN’s Aya Batrawy reports, there are strict political conditions on how the money will be spent.

 

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