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Israel eases Gaza blockade for a day

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-01-22 17:56

Offering a possible solution, moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas offered to take control of the Gaza crossings from the Palestinian side. One of the reasons Israel closed the crossings was its refusal to deal with Hamas officials in Gaza.

Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum said Hamas would study the proposal. If implemented, it would give Abbas his first foothold in Gaza since Hamas ran his forces out in June. The Hamas-Israel fighting has embarrassed Abbas, who was under growing pressure at home to suspend the recently restarted peace talks with Israel. However, Abbas aides said the talks would not be halted.

Hamas organized several protests Monday to underscore the suffering of ordinary people.

Sixty empty fuel trucks lined up along the Gaza-Egypt border in a protest by gas station owners who demanded that Egypt and Israel lift the closure. Also at the border, hundreds including doctors in white coats, Hamas lawmakers and ambulance drivers staged a march.

The power outage mainly affected Gaza City, which receives its electricity from Gaza's only power plant. Other areas of Gaza are supplied directly by Israel and Egypt and those services were not interrupted.

Israeli officials charged that Hamas was creating a false crisis and could resume the power supply if it wanted.

On Monday, hospital generators in Gaza City still had enough fuel. But a UN agency warned they would run out in a matter of days if supplies are not replenished.

International food aid may have to be suspended by the weekend, said Chris Gunness, spokesman of the UN Relief and Works Agency, which distributes food to 860,000 Palestinian refugees in Gaza. The World Food Program, which gives food to another 270,000 Gaza residents, said it would suspend distribution by Thursday because distribution trucks would run out of fuel.

"We are all in a very vulnerable situation because of limited supplies," said John Ging, head of UNRWA.

The closure was imposed after a spike in rocket fire on Israeli border communities following a small Israeli ground operation in Gaza. Daily rocket fire into southern Israeli communities has virtually paralyzed life there.

Five rockets were fired on Sunday, down from 53 in the previous two days.

"We think Hamas got the message," said Mekel, the Foreign Ministry spokesman. "As we have seen in the past couple of days, when they want to stop the rockets, they can."

But Israeli Defense Ministry spokesman Shlomo Dror said a reduction in rocket attacks was not enough for Israel to ease the closure.

"If we open the crossings again tomorrow, there will be rockets that fall again on Israel," Dror said. "They don't want to recognize Israel and want to destroy Israel -- that's their problem. They shouldn't expect that we will help them destroy us."

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