By NNN-WAFA,
Tel Aviv : Israel has begun easing its blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip under a truce agreement reached last week.
About 90 trucks of food and other supplies were sent across the border on Sunday, up from a daily average of 60 to 70 before the ceasefire.
The shipments include milk, fruit and vegetables. Other goods like cement, which has been banned under Israel’s crippling blockade of Gaza, are supposed to be allowed in next week.
“If the quiet is sustainable, and I hope it will be, then in the coming days you will see the gradual easing of the sanctions on the Gaza Strip,” said Israeli spokesman Mark Regev.
Regev says there will not be open borders until Hamas releases Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, kidnapped from his base near Gaza two years ago.