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UNICEF Insists On Dealing With Israeli Companies in Gaza
UNICEF Insists On Dealing With Israeli Companies
For Its Projects In Gaza
29/05/2012
GAZA, (PIC)-- Jane Koch, representative of UNICEF in the occupied Palestinian territories, insisted on accepting the tenders for Gaza projects offered by Israeli companies and threatened not to carry out these projects in the Gaza Strip if they were boycotted by Palestinian contractors.
This came in her meeting Monday with head of the Palestinian contractors' union in Gaza, Osama Kahil.
The two talked about the accusations made against the UNICEF office in the Strip about its acceptance of Israeli tenders for projects in Gaza and its refusal to deal with Palestinian companies.
The union had accused UNICEF in Gaza of giving its bids for projects in Gaza to Israeli companies instead of Palestinian companies.
Following the meeting, Kahil told Quds Press
that Koch asserted that UNICEF would deal only with Israeli
companies to carry out its projects in Gaza and provided
flimsy excuses for not accepting tenders from Palestinian
companies.
Kahil condemned this UNICEF attitude and
affirmed that the Palestinian contractors' union would have
to boycott its projects in response to its insistence on
involving Israeli companies in
them.
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