The Israeli occupation army on Thursday announced its decision to stop allowing fuel shipments to enter the besieged Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army yesterday also reduced the permitted fishing zone off the coast of Gaza from 15 nautical miles (about 27.8 km) to eight nautical miles until further notice according to a statement issued by the office of the Israeli coordinator of the government activities in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
The army last Tuesday shut down the Karam border crossing and barred entry of cargo trucks including those carrying building materials.
Aerial and artillery attacks also targeted different areas recently. Today’s dawn airstrikes caused material damage to an UNRWA school and some homes.
The Israeli army claimed its recent attacks and restrictions on Gaza were punitive and came after days of incendiary balloon launches by Palestinian young men towards Israeli areas.
However local sources in Gaza described the flying of balloons carrying incendiaries towards Israeli settlements by young men as acts of protest against Israel’s failure to honor previous ceasefire pledges to ease the blockade on Gaza and its persistence in attacking fishermen.
