The radical Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, on Sunday voiced its support for the return of EU observers to the Rafah crossing point on the border with Egypt.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Sunday that the European Union planned to put forward a proposal to send its observers to monitor traffic into Gaza and ensure that no weapons were getting into the blockaded enclave along with humanitarian supplies.
In response to Kouchner's statement, Salah Bardawil, one of Hamas senior officials, said that the group has no objections to the presence of European monitors at the Rafah crossing point on both sides of the border.
European observers monitored the Rafah crossing point into Gaza since 2005 until Hamas took control of the enclave in 2007 and the Gaza Strip became subject to an almost continuous Israeli blockade.
Calls to lift Israel's blockade of the Palestinian enclave renewed after Israel intercepted an international aid convoy in the neutral waters in the Mediterranean Sea, killing at least nine pro-Palestinian activists.
Israel has refused so far to lift the blockade, saying it is "an act of self-defense in the face of Hamas' continuing aggression."
GAZA, June 7 (RIA Novosti)
