Former US Attorney-General Ramsey Clark is in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on a solidarity mission.
Clark met with Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday to kick off a three-day visit. He'll also meet with human rights activists and visit relatives of people killed during Operation Cast Lead two years ago.
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discussed Israel's blockade of Gaza and recent escalations in
Israeli-Palestinian fighting.
The visit places Clark at odds with American foreign policy, which shuns
Hamas as a terrorist group. A longtime critic of US military policy in
the Middle East, Clark served on Saddam Hussein's defense team.
Clark was attorney general in the mid-1960s.