Special report: Palestine-Israel Relations

    GAZA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- A Palestinian official said on Saturday that Israel has actually increased the amounts of diesel and gasoline allowed into the Gaza Strip, but kept the same limited amounts of cooking gas.

    Mahmoud al-Shawa, chief of Gaza Stations Union said in a statement that Israel on Friday added 400 thousand liters of diesel to the previous amount of diesel which is 800 thousand liters.

    Israel and Gaza militant groups agreed on truce, brokered by Egypt on June 19. According to the unwritten treaty, Israel stops ground and air strikes on militants and ease restrictions on goods movements for stopping homemade rockets attacks were fired from Gaza at Israel.

    However, Hamas complained that although the Palestinians showed a 100 percent commitment to the truce and refrained from attacking Israel, Israel is not yet committed to ease all its restrictions on Gaza border crossings.

    Al-Shawa said Israel promised to increase the amounts of gasoline and cooking gas allowed into the Gaza Strip in the coming days, adding "the Israeli justifications for not allowing the proper amounts of fuels aren't convincing."

    Israel imposed a tightened blockade on the Gaza Strip following Hamas movement's takeover of the Gaza Strip last summer. Following an increase of rockets attacks from Gaza, Israel termed the Gaza Strip as "a hostile entity."

    But since the Egyptian-brokered truce came into effect on June 19, Israel has been gradually easing restrictions imposed in Gaza Strip crossings, but Hamas said easing the restrictions "is very slow."