<br/>United Nations special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry has announced that the UN is ready to accept responsibility for the cargo of the three Turkish-registered vessels and ensure its distribution in Gaza for humanitarian purposes.<br/><br/>According to a statement of the UN, he told reporters that efforts have focused on trying to look forward and trying to turn this crisis into an opportunity to really start to address the manifold issues confronting Gaza.<br/><br/>Earlier in an open briefing in Security Council, he stressed the need for a fundamental change in the situation in Gaza. Mr. Serry told that recent flotilla tragedy is just another reminder of why the blockade of the Strip is unsustainable and must end. He emphasised that the closure and blockade of the Gaza Strip needs to come to an end as flotilla crisis is the latest symptom of a failed policy.<br/><br/>Our West Asia correspondent reports that Israel imposed the blockade on Gaza what it called security reasons after Hamas, which does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, ousted the Fatah movement in the Strip in 2007.<br/> <br/>Recently, Gaza issue attracted urgent attention after the 31 May incident in which Israel raided a six-ship convoy in international waters that was carrying humanitarian goods and activists and heading for Gaza resulted in the deaths of nine civilians and the wounding of at least 30 others.