UNRWA official calls for Japanese help to end Gaza violence

UNRWA official calls for Japanese help to end Gaza violence

SAPPORO, Japan - Mohammed Maqadma, chief of the Health Department at the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Gaza, appeals for Japanese assistance to help end the current violence between Israel and Gaza-based militant group Hamas in a lecture held in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, on Sept. 21, 2014.

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