Special report: Palestine-Israel
Relations
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GAZA, Nov. 27 (Xinhua)
-- Palestinian fighters fired two rockets into Israel late Wednesday and Israel
decided to keep Gaza Strip crossings closed in response, local sources said on
Thursday.
No Palestinian group claimed responsibility for the rocket attack which
came hours after Israel told the Palestinian side that Kerem Shalom cargo
crossing, which was open on Wednesday for a convoy of aid, would remain open for
Thursday.
45 trucks of aid, including 20 for the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency (UNRWA) and 25 trucks of frozen food and dairy products for private
companies were supposed to get into Gaza Thursday, according to Palestinian
officials.
Israel first sealed off Gaza Strip last year after Islamic Hamas movement
seized the territory. But in June, Egypt brokered a ceasefire between Hamas and
Israel until sudden clashes between Hamas militants and Israeli soldiers in
southeast Gaza rocked the agreement and inflamed a new wave of violence on Nov.
4.
Since then Israel closed the crossing points and withheld fuel supplies to
Gaza power plant except for three times.