Nearly a day after an open-ended truce is reached between Israel and the Gaza Strip, the streets of Gaza quickly take on some semblance of normalcy, with people going out shopping and heading back to work as workers seek to repair damage to power lines and the phone network.
Meanwhile, fishermen go out to sea after Israel agrees to expand the permitted fishing zone, in a measure which came into force just before dawn today.
But at the crossings into and out of Gaza, through which Israel has agreed to allow in goods, humanitarian aid, medical supplies and materials to repair the water, electricity and mobile phone networks, it is not immediately clear when the changes will go into effect.
Members of a Gazan family ride on top of a horse cart as they head home with their belongings in the Shejaiya neighborhood on Wednesday, August 27, 2014. (photo credit: Roberto Schmidt/AFP)
A Palestinian liaison official says the restrictions at the Erez crossing in the north and Kerem Shalom commercial crossing in the south have returned to what they were before the 50-day operation.
“We will have a meeting today with Israel to discuss the new procedures — but the only thing in place so far is the new fishing limit, while crossings have returned to the status quo ante,” he tells AFP.
— AFP
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