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Fri 06 Jun 2010Widespread dismay at limited extent of proposed measures

ANALYSIS:UN agencies, NGOs and Palestinian politicians and citizens are critical of siege's partial lifting, writes MICHAEL JANSEN

ISRAEL'S ANNOUNCEMENT that it would ease but not lift the blockade of Gaza has been met with dismay by politicians, UN agencies, relief organisations and citizens of Gaza.