Donors pledge 500 million dollars in aid to Palestinians

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by Sophie Mongalvy
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STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Donor countries have pledged 500 million dollars (390 million euros) in aid to the Palestinian territories as the UN warned a conference that the region was facing a humanitarian crisis.

"All in all, it was a total pledge of nearly 500 million dollars," Swedish Aid Minister Carin Jaemtin told AFP on the sidelines of the talks in Stockholm on Friday.

United Nations relief coordinator Jan Egeland opened the talks warning that the Gaza Strip was a "ticking time bomb" after a devastating two-month Israeli offensive.

"If there is no hope ... you can probably expect that the extremist groups have a lot of possibilities to recruit among the hundreds of thousands of youths," Egeland warned.

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