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Israel Cuts Gazan Lumber Shipments, Importers Say

Israel has scaled back lumber shipments to Gaza, Palestinian importers claimed Monday according to Haaretz, further delaying housing reconstruction in the coastal enclave controlled by terror group Hamas. 

The transfer of goods to Gaza is tightly controlled by Israel, who is certain Hamas is using the materials for military infrastructure rather than residential re-building.

Security officials have also found proof that Hamas uses cement, as well as wood, to buttress its terror tunnels into Israel. It is believed Hamas had been repairing those tunnels destroyed in Operation Protective Edge for months. 

According to the importers, 200 cubic maters (260 cubic yards) of lumber have been brought into Gaza daily as part of reconstruction, but now these shipments will be banned completely. 

As a result, the number of planks used by furniture factories in Gaza will be slashed from 6,000 a day to 2,400, the importers noted, quoting an order Israel sent to the Palestinian Authority last week. 

Economist Maher al-Tabbaa, a spokesman for the local chamber of commerce, said Israel had allowed 68,000 tons of cement into Gaza since the conclusion of last summer’s war. 

But that is only a minor fraction of what the enclave needs for full reconstruction, al-Tabbaa asserted, before accusing Israel of conducting “economic warfare.”

Despite this new restriction, the number of truckloads of goods Israel has allowed into Gaza has doubled in recent weeks. 

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