Jerusalem: Israel on Wednesday approved a series of steps that relieved the blockade of the Gaza Strip, including opening the main commercial intersection with a Palestinian bag to import.
The announcement occurred a day after Israeli officials allowed the import of important construction materials needed for the rebuilding of Gaza Strip after recent conflict in May.
Tensions have been high in the past few weeks when Hamas activists have launched a burner balloon to Israel, triggering a number of forest fires across the border, and hold a series of demonstrations that are sometimes along the border fence with Israel.
Cogat, the Israeli defense body responsible for the affairs of Palestinian civilians, said in a statement that the government agreed to expand the fishing zone of the Gaza Strip, opening a shalom ferry, increasing the water supply to the region, and increased the number of Gaza traders who were allowed to enter Israel.
It is said that these steps are “conditional at sustainable preservation of regional security stability for the long term.” An Israeli soldier who was shot by a protester on August 21 died of his wound on Monday.
Two Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy and a Hamas militant, have also been killed from Israeli shots during the recent protests along the border.
Israel and Egypt have blocked the Gaza Strip because Hamas seized the control of the region in 2007, a year after winning the Palestinian election.
Israel said the blockade was needed to keep Hamas, an Islamic militant group vowed to the destruction of Israel, from rearranging, while critics said collective closure.
Blockade, which limits the movement of goods and people in and out of Gaza, has destroyed the Gaza economy.
Israel and Hamas have fought four wars since 2008, and Israel has tightened the blockade since the latest battle in May.