Despite being targeted with Rockets and bombs Israel to allow morebuilding materials into Gaza

350 trucks of cement, steel and concrete for private projects will be allowed into Strip for the first time since 2007.

Despite being the target of rockets fire from inside Gaza, Israel still plans to allow building materials meant for private projects into the Palestinian Gaza Strip for the first time in six years, an Israeli defense official said on Tuesday.

Gaza has been struggling with a shortage of building materials due to the terrorists attacks which has worsened since July, when the Egyptian military began a sweeping crackdown on tunnels   used to smuggle goods and weapons from Egypt into the neighbouring Palestinian enclave.

An Israeli defense official said that 350 trucks of cement, steel and concrete will cross into Gaza weekly and will deliver the materials to private hands for the first time since 2007.

Israel imposed a blockade on Gaza in 2007 after its enemy, Islamist group Hamas, seized control of the territory in a brief civil war with Western-backed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party and has given the nod to attacks against Israel ever since. 

Under international pressure, Israel began to ease the blockade in 2010 and allowed international aid agencies to import construction material. It further eased restrictions at the end of last year.

As expected Gaza economist Maher Al-Tabba said the Israeli move was not enough to end the shortages. "The quantities of steel and cement to be allowed is a good start but it will not meet the needs. Gaza Strip needs double these quantities," he said.

It obviously never crossed this 'economists' mind that if he whispered in Hamas's ear and the attacks against Israel stopped, then there obviously wouldn't be any more shortages. But obviously this never crossed his mind.

The Israeli defense source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Israel's decision followed a request by Abbas.

Abbas and Israel restarted peace talks in July after a three-year hiatus. Hamas rejects peace with the Jewish state and has fought clashes with it several times in the past few years. The Hamas charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish State and regularly Israelis are at the receiving end of rocket attacks, bombs and horrific murders against women and children. 

But despite all this it's always Israel who has to make the concessions and put its own security at risk even more to please the PA not forgetting the liberal western media.

Source JP