JERUSALEM – Israel will allow the resumption of food shipments into the Gaza Strip today after a four-day halt in response to Palestinian rocket attacks, defense officials said.
The Israeli officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said defense chiefs met and decided to allow 80 truckloads to cross.
Israel imposed a partial blockade on the Gaza Strip when Hamas seized power there a year ago, then tightened it in retaliation for constant rocket and mortar attacks from the territory into Israeli towns.
It began easing restrictions last Sunday, after a truce with Palestinian militants took effect, but clamped down again after three rockets were fired into Israel on Tuesday, wounding two people.
Separately, the Israeli army and Palestinian officials reported the overnight shooting death of a Palestinian teenager who threw Molotov cocktails at an army patrol in the West Bank.
The military said soldiers entered the village of Beit Umar to stop firebomb attacks on Israeli vehicles on a nearby highway.
