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Israel agrees to allow ‘minimal’ two trucks of fuel a day into Gaza

A truck carrying fuel decorated with a UN flag crosses into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip [File:Said Khatib/AFP]

Israel is allowing two trucks of fuel into Gaza every day to keep the besieged enclave’s water and sewage system operational, as its forces continue their air and ground siege of the territory.

Israel’s war cabinet said 140,000 litres (37,000 gallons) of fuel could enter every two days after it received a “special request” from the United States.

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