Blair cancels trip after warning
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Mideast envoy Tony Blair called off what would have been the first visit of a top Western diplomat to Hamas-ruled Gaza after Israel’s Shin Bet security service said he might come under attack there.
Shin Bet said it had received “pinpoint information that Palestinians were planning to attack former British Prime Minister Blair in Gaza, so the relevant services alerted him.”
Blair’s visit was to have included a tour of a Gaza wastewater project and meetings with traders and United Nations officials, but not with leaders of Hamas, the Islamic militant group that seized Gaza by force in June 2007.
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