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October 8, 2008
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Feature: Gaza fuel crisis still pending

by Saud Abu Ramadan

GAZA, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Mahmoud Akeila, 43, who distributes cooking gas balloons to houses of Gaza city's Remal neighborhood's residents, turned off his mini-truck engine and waited for the residents to bring their empty cooking gas jars in order to refill them with gas from a nearby cooking gas station.

As he loaded dozens of empty blue metal balloons into his truck, he asked every owner of a gas jars (balloon) to write his name clearly on it, while saying "I can't promise you that your gas balloons will be filled today. It may take at least one week in order to get them back filled with gas."

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