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Israel approves fuel for Gaza plant: EU
JERUSALEM |
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has given the European Union open-ended approval to supply Palestinians with industrial fuel for the Gaza Strip's power plant, an EU official said on Tuesday.
"We were told we were back to the levels prior to the closure, which is 2.2 million liters per week," a senior EU official involved in the program told Reuters, though he cautioned that "everything is temporary" given tensions between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers.
The plant, which shut down on Sunday after Israel sealed Gaza's border crossings in a bid to pressure Palestinians into stopping rocket fire, consumes 2.2 million liters a week.
Israel allowed emergency fuel supplies into Gaza on Tuesday but described the shipment as a temporary relief measure.
(Reporting by Adam Entous, Writing by Dan Williams)
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