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Gaza aid held-up in Jordan
A bureaucratic argument with Egypt is preventing the convoy from reaching the Strip.
Last Modified: 27 Dec 2009 01:51 GMT

Since June 2007 Gaza has been under a crippling blockade with few essential goods making it through.

Now an aid convoy of 250 trucks and ambulances is attempting to reach the Strip to deliver much needed supplies.

But a bureaucratic argument with Egypt is holding it back in Aqaba in southwest Jordan.

Al Jazeera's Clayton Swisher reports.

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