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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (5) Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared German student attacks Hell's Angels with puppy 15 Jun 2010 U.S. banks may end free checking accounts: report 11:20am EDT Nintendo sees life yet in the Wii 16 Jun 2010 Miley Cyrus "no underwear" photo is fake, blogger says 15 Jun 2010 UPDATE 2-California gay marriage trial ends dramatically 16 Jun 2010 iPhone 4 sets record sale pace despite gaffe 12:27am EDT Euro rises on Spain auction | Video 11:23am EDT Lawmakers grill BP boss as spill deal lifts shares | Video 11:11am EDT Wall Street off after weak factory, jobless data 11:26am EDT China warns finger-pointing could derail G20 9:47am EDT German student attacks Hell's Angels with puppy 15 Jun 2010 Special Report: Big Pharma's stalled R&D machine 16 Jun 2010 Oprah gives magazine staff $10,000 each and an iPad 16 Jun 2010 U.S. banks may end free checking accounts: report 11:20am EDT Despite spill, most Americans back offshore drilling 16 Jun 2010 Warren Buffett, Bill Gates ask billionaires to give away wealth 16 Jun 2010 Senate votes to extend home tax credit deadline 16 Jun 2010 iPhone 4 sets record sale pace despite gaffe 12:27am EDT Vatican endorses "The Blues Brothers" 2:57am EDT UPDATE 1-Senate votes to extend US home tax credit deadline 16 Jun 2010 Israel says easing Gaza land blockade Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:12am EDT Related News Q&A: What's changing in Israel's blockade of Gaza? 8:12am EDT Trucks loaded with fruits and vegetables are parked at the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza, June 13, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Ahmed Zakot JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Thursday it was easing a land blockade of the Gaza Strip that drew heightened international criticism after its deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Hamas-run territory. World A new Israeli-approved product list included all food items, toys, stationery, kitchen utensils, mattresses and towels, said Raed Fattouh, the Palestinian coordinator of supplies to Gaza. But Israel maintained its sea blockade, a ban on exports from the coastal strip and a prohibition against the commercial import of building materials, vital to widescale reconstruction after the December 2008-January 2009 Gaza war. Hamas, an Islamist group locked in conflict with Israel, dismissed the new measures as trivial and "media propaganda." "What is needed is a complete lifting of the blockade. Goods and people must be free to enter and leave. Gaza especially needs construction material, which must be allowed to come in without restrictions," said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. An Israeli statement, issued after a security cabinet meeting, said "it was agreed to liberalize the system by which civilian goods enter Gaza (and) expand the inflow of materials for civilian projects that are under international supervision." Israel has said unrestricted import of cement and steel could lead to Hamas Islamists seizing the material and using it to rebuild military infrastructure. It already allows in limited quantities of construction material for U.N. projects. The announcement did not specify how procedures for the import of commercial goods would change or list any specific products, saying only that cabinet ministers would decide in the coming days how to implement the revised policy. But it noted "existing security procedures to prevent the inflow of weapons and war materials" would continue. Defense Minister Ehud Barak later told reporters more goods would reach the Gaza Strip "without lifting the sea blockade," a measure Israel says is aimed at curbing arms smuggling to Hamas. Some 1.5 million people live in Gaza, of whom about 1 million depend to some extent on regular supplies of U.N. and other foreign aid brought in overland after Israeli inspection. "COUNTERPRODUCTIVE" Israel faced increased international calls to ease or lift its Gaza embargo following the killing by Israeli commandos of nine pro-Palestinian Turkish activists during the interception at sea of an aid convoy on May 31. Israeli leaders said the troops acted in self-defense after being swarmed by activists who attacked them. Once-close Muslim ally Turkey accused Israel of "state terrorism." Commenting on the revised embargo, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said Ankara wanted to evaluate the Israeli move and see how it would be implemented. "However, our attitude on the issue is obvious, we expect that the blockade be lifted altogether," the official said. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the European Union hoped "the in-principle statement by the Israeli government can now be followed up very quickly with the detail which we shall look at with interest." Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told reporters in Rome that Israel "has understood that a blockade strategy is counterproductive," echoing Israeli and foreign critics of the embargo who have said it only rallies Gaza residents around Hamas. European diplomats had said a plan drawn up in coordination with Middle East envoy Tony Blair called for Israel to move from a policy of banning the entry of many commercial goods, except a few designated items, to accepting all products and prohibiting only those proscribed on a list. Blair represents the Quartet of international powers -- the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia -- seeking Middle East peace. He held talks last week with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel imposed the blockade soon after Hamas, which has rejected Western calls to recognize its right to exist, won a Palestinian election in 2006. Restrictions were tightened after Hamas's Gaza takeover. A network of smuggling tunnels under the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt keeps the enclave supplied with a variety of black market commercial goods. Hamas maintains its own tunnels, which Israel says are also used for weapons smuggling. Humanitarian aid shipments are transferred regularly via border crossings with Israel, but international aid groups say more supplies are needed. The security cabinet's deliberations began on Wednesday and coincided with another visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories by U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell. Mitchell is mediating indirect talks between Israel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority, which holds sway only in the West Bank after the Fatah movement lost control of Gaza to rival Hamas in a brief war in 2007. "This is a period in which we urge all concerned to exercise restraint and to avoid confrontation," Mitchell told reporters at the start of a meeting in Jerusalem with Barak. (Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Editing by Alison Williams) World Comments See All Comments (5) | Post Comment Jun 17, 2010 8:29am EDT The US needs to stop funding $6 billion toward Israel’s way. We can’t afford that anymore. Storyburn_has Report As Abusive Jun 17, 2010 9:06am EDT The jews controlling another people can only end in disaster. ehross Report As Abusive Jun 17, 2010 9:16am EDT Israel has every right to block/inspect ll goods going into Gaza. Hamas, which rules Gaza in it’s charter declares the destruction of Israel. They do not want peace and will do whatever it takes to wipe Israel off the map. A country can not live next to a nation state with those goals. Israel allows food and goods to the people must needs to inspect all those goods. The people of Gaza have turned into a giant welfare society. Unless the leadership of Gaza changes and the people are motivated to work for themselves this problem will continue. It is sad that the world community can not ban together and set a policy that provides jobs and force the people of Gaza to work for any food/goods that they receive. This by it self will not solve all the problems but it would be a good/easy start. Instead Hamas will continue to make Israel the source of all its problems. This is similar to Obama’s method to all his problems-not much leadership with him or Hamas oi812 Report As Abusive Jun 17, 2010 9:46am EDT The problem of course is the fact that”Israel” has no legitamacy. Give up their racism and behave as decent people and the issues are instantly resolved. ehross Report As Abusive Jun 17, 2010 11:04am EDT Israel’s partial list of banned items under Gaza blockade: sage cardamom cumin coriander ginger jam halva vinegar nutmeg chocolate fruit preserves seeds and nuts biscuits and sweets potato chips gas for soft drinks dried fruit fresh meat plaster tar wood for construction cement iron glucose industrial salt plastic/glass/metal containers industrial margarine tarpaulin sheets for huts fabric (for clothing) flavor and smell enhancers fishing rods various fishing nets buoys ropes for fishing nylon nets for greenhouses hatcheries and spare parts for hatcheries spare parts for tractors dairies for cowsheds irrigation pipe systems ropes to tie greenhouses planters for saplings heaters for chicken farms musical instruments size A4 paper writing implements notebooks newspapers toys razors sewing machines and spare parts heaters horses donkeys goats cattle chicks boreal Report As Abusive See All Comments (5) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. 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