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EU Lawmakers Meet Palestinian PM Despite Boycott of Hamas
[Reuters/Ynet News] A group of ten European parliamentarians met in Gaza on Tuesday with Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, where Kyriacos Triantaphyllides from Cyprus called for lifting the EU's financial embargo on the PA. An EU spokeswoman said the bloc's policy of shunning Hamas remains unchanged. "The parliament is not the official representative of the EU in matters of foreign policy," she said. Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mark Regev, called the meeting a "very negative occurrence." "Giving recognition and legitimacy to an unreformed Hamas will not help peace," he said.