Israel should open all seven of its crossings to Gaza, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said today, as Israel said it was considering ways to ease its blockade of the coastal strip, Reuters reported. Israel has come under international pressure to lift the blockade following the fallout from its assault on a flotilla of aid ships on May 31 in which Israeli forces killed 9 people. "This Israeli blockade on Gaza must be lifted in the sense that the seven Israeli crossings must be open for all the needs of the Gaza Strip," Abbas said after meeting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. -- SPA