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Sanctions force Gazans to wait in line for days for a bit of fuel
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Gaza Strip, Qassams, fuel 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for April 8, 2008.

Where there is a gas station in the Gaza Strip, there is an inevitable line of cars several kilometers long, comprised of drivers who wait days and nights for a bit of fuel.

Israel restricted fuel supplies to the Strip late last year, in an attempt to pressure Palestinian militants into halting rocket fire at neighboring Israeli communities. Gaza now receives roughly one-third of the diesel that Israel used to transfer. The rocket fire hasn't abated, but civilians certainly are feeling the heat.

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