Palestinian cabinet gets to work amid aid hopes
AFP, Ramallah
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas's emergency cabinet met for the first time yesterday since Hamas's bloody seizure of Gaza, with signs a crippling Western aid freeze may soon be lifted. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana announced that the 27-nation bloc -- the biggest donor to the Palestinians -- would provide some direct funds to the new government and is seeking a way to send aid to the impoverished Gaza Strip.
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