Israeli officials said Sunday that Israel had begun reducing fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip and had closed one of the two crossings through which food, medicine and other supplies pass into the area, in line with a recent government decision to impose sanctions in response to continued rocket fire from the Hamas-run territory.
Shlomo Dror, a spokesman for the Coordinator of Activities in the Territories, the Israeli agency that oversees supplies to Gaza, said the plan was to reduce the amount of fuel by 5 percent to 11 percent. He said that the industrial fuel needed to operate the Gaza power plant would not be affected, but that cuts would be made in the supply of benzene, which is mostly for private use, and diesel, mostly used for public transportation and service vehicles such as ambulances. Dror said the Sufa crossing to the north had been closed, leaving the Kerem Shalom crossing in the south as the only point of entry for goods.
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