GAZA CITY – Israeli authorities were to allow some 20 cars to be transported into Gaza on Monday, the first such shipment in more than three years, the military said. The decision to allow some 20 passenger vehicles to enter was taken in June amid international outrage over the deadly seizure of a Gaza-bound aid fleet but was held up by red tape and rocket attacks, a spokesman said.

A Palestinian smuggler is seen in a tunnel that runs between Egypt and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 03, 2010, part of a network of tunnels linking Egypt with the Islamist Hamas-ruled enclave to smuggle food and other essential goods, evading the crippling blockade imposed by Israel after Hamas took over the territory in June 2007.
Major Guy Inbar of the military’s Gaza liaison office said there had been “several problems” in coordinating the shipment with the Western-backed Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, without providing further details. The delivery was also held up by near-daily rocket and mortar attacks last week, he added. (more…)
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