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Food Shipments Into Gaza Strip Will Resume

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The Associated Press

Published: June 29, 2008

JERUSALEM - JERUSALEM - Israel will allow the resumption of food shipments into the Gaza Strip today after a four-day halt in response to Palestinian rocket attacks, Israeli officials said.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because an official statement had not been issued, said defense chiefs had decided to allow 80 truckloads to cross.

Israel imposed a partial blockade on Gaza when Hamas took over there a year ago, then tightened it in retaliation for constant rocket and mortar attacks from the territory.

It began easing restrictions last Sunday after a truce with Palestinian militants took effect but clamped down again after three rockets were fired into Israel on Tuesday, lightly wounding two people.

There were no reported attacks from Gaza on Saturday but the Israeli army and Palestinian officials reported the overnight shooting death of a Palestinian teenager who threw Molotov cocktails at an army patrol in the West Bank.

The West Bank is not covered by a 9-day-old truce between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, but after troops in the West Bank city of Nablus killed two Palestinians, one an Islamic Jihad commander, the group launched the three rockets from Gaza in retaliation.

Officials from Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' government both restated support Saturday for the cease-fire.

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