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Broadcast authority bans radio ad criticizing government policy on Gaza
By The Associated Press
Tags: Gaza, Israel

Israel's national broadcast authority has rejected radio ads criticizing the Israeli government for stranding Palestinian university students in the Gaza Strip.

The broadcast authority says the ads are too controversial.

An Israeli human rights group working for freedom of movement for Palestinians submitted the ads to the authority. The radio spots targeted Israeli sanctions that have trapped hundreds of Gaza students who hoped to study abroad.
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The ads feature two prominent Israeli authors and a former Cabinet minister calling on the government to let the university students out of Gaza.

Israel imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip after Hamas seized power in June 2007 and tightened the sanctions because of ongoing rocket fire against Israeli towns. Currently, an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire has been agreed upon by both the Israeli side and Hamas.

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