12 Aug, 2014
Hamas wants Israel to allow Gaza airport and seaport – The Washington Post
Hamas, as well as the people in the Gaza Strip, want something big in exchange for a truce with Israel.
They want a seaport. And an airport.
They want movement between their seaside territory and the outside world.
“Everything is ready. We have the engineering studies, the business plans, environmental assessments, all that is needed. You just say the word,” said Ziad Abid, the director general of the Gaza Seaport Authority in the Ministry of Transportation.
Plans for the seaport have been gathering dust for 14 years, Abid acknowledged Monday. “But now is the time,” he said.
Gaza technically has an airport — Yasser Arafat International, named for the late Palestine Liberation Organization leader — but it was shut down in 2001, after Israel bombed the control tower. After three wars, the airfield now resembles a movie set for a disaster film. The last traffic on its cratered tarmac was the Israeli tanks that roared through two weeks ago.
Read the rest: At talks in Cairo, Hamas wants Israel to allow Gaza airport and seaport – The Washington Post.
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