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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Egyptian forces thwart fuel smuggling into Gaza

Ma'an
Egyptian security forces thwarted a diesel smuggling operation and shut down a storehouse containing commercial goods, also prepared for smuggling into the Gaza Strip on Monday.

......The Egyptian forces confiscated the fuel and destroyed it by mixing it with water.

Israeli authorities have restricted the transfer of both domestic gas and industrial fuel into the Gaza Strip for three months, by closing the Nahal Oz fuel pipeline in northern Gaza regularly. This has prompted a critical gas crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip, as bakeries and agricultural greenhouses have been forced to shut down as a result.

The gas crisis has further affected Gaza’s hospitals, with insufficient gas to provide heating for its patients and to sterilize surgical equipment. Full story
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