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Palestinian children on Thursday wait in western Gaza City for aircraft to drop aid by parachute amid Israeli attacks. Photo by Mahmoud Issa/UPI | License Photo Aug. 8 (UPI) — The United Nations’ human rights chief on Friday joined several nations’ leaders condemning the plan by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to expand military control of the Gaza Strip. Volker Turk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement: “The Israeli Government’s plan for a complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza Strip must be immediately halted.” Netanyahu’s decision, approved by Israel’s Security Cabinet overnight Thursday, was…
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