Ma'an - International Quartet envoy Tony Blair will visit the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to inaugurate a new sewage project in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, political advisor of the de facto foreign minister Ahmad Yousef said on Monday.
Yousef told Ma'an that Blair will also meet businessmen from the Gaza Strip, but that he was not planning any meetings with members of the de facto government.
He explained that the de facto government have security measures in place for Blair's visit, which he described as "a positive initiative for the Western World to consider the Palestinians' suffering." He added that he hoped the visit would initiate the end of the Israeli siege of the coastal sector.
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