Israeli and Palestinian officials reached an agreement this week on a new plan for delivering fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip.
The agreement, reached only days before Gaza was due to run out of gasoline, came Monday, when Israeli Energy Minister Gonen Segev met in Gaza with Ahmed Karia, the Palestinian Authority official in charge of economic affairs.
Israel halted fuel shipments to Gaza after terrorists ambushed a convoy of fuel trucks in Gaza last week, killing one Israeli security guard and wounding another.
Under the new arrangement, Israeli trucks will no longer enter the Palestinian self-rule area. Instead, gasoline will be pumped from Israeli to Palestinian delivery trucks at the Erez and Nahal Oz crossings, which separate Israel from Gaza.
Segev said he expects the gasoline deliveries to resume later this week.
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