GAZA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A major United Nations aid agency said it suspended its operations in the Gaza Strip on Friday because the Islamist group Hamas that rules the territory had seized supplies for the second time this week. Sami Mshasha, a spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) which supports much of Gaza's 1.5 million population, said Hamas forces had seized 10 trucks loaded with humanitarian supplies on Friday. Two days earlier, Hamas men took blankets and food from an UNRWA store in Gaza. "The decision was to suspend aid distribution in the Gaza Strip until the problem with the Hamas authorities is resolved and until the intervention of the Hamas authorities in the work of UNRWA is stopped," Mshasha said. UNRWA extended the number of people it helps in Gaza following a three-week Israeli offensive last month that left 1,300 Palestinians dead, 5,000 wounded and thousands homeless. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
Palestinian Sheikh Daoud al-Moustafa, who was onboard a ship carrying humanitarian aid that attempted to break the Israeli blockade of the coastal Gaza strip and was seized by Israel navy, is ...
