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Article: ARAB ISRAELI RELATIONS - Oct 28 - Israel Cuts Fuel Supplies To Gaza Strip.
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- November 3, 2007
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Israeli officials says that Israel had begun reducing fuel supplies to Gaza and had closed down one of the two crossings through which food, medicines and other supplies pass into the strip, in line with a recent government decision to respond with sanctions to continued rocket fire from the Hamas-run territory. Shlomo Dror, spokesman for the Coordinator of Activities in the Territories, the Israeli government and military agency that oversees supplies to Gaza, said the plan was to reduce the amount of fuel entering Gaza by 5 to 11 percent. He said that the industrial fuel needed to operate the Gaza power plant would not be affected, but that there would be cuts in the ...