The Quartet's Mideast envoy Tony Blair will visit the Gaza Strip this week, a Hamas spokesman said Monday, in the former British prime minister's first trip to the coastal territory since the Islamic group violently seized control a year ago.
Blair is expected to meet with traders and inspect a northern Gaza waste water project being built with international funds, said Palestinian businessmen and officials familiar with his itinerary. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the visit has not been officially announced.
Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan said his group would make security arrangements for Blair's visit. Radwan said in a statement text-messaged to reporters that the envoy's visit would be brief.
Blair's office would not comment on the trip.
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