John Ging, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) earlier said food assistance to 650,000 Palestinians would be stopped on Thursday due to a shortage of gasoline. The mission needs 7,000 liters of fuel per day to carry out its work.
"We offered UNRWA 50,000 liters of diesel so that the agency could continue to work here," said Mahmoud al-Khuzundar of the Association for Petrol Station Owners in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Khuzundar said his association has 20 trucks loaded with fuel at Nahal Oz, a fuel depot on the Israeli-Palestinian border, but that local farmers are blocking roads, demanding fuel.
Israel has put restrictions on fuel supplies and deliveries of other essential goods to Gaza as part of sanctions to pressure Hamas to stop rocket attacks on Israeli border towns, since the radical group seized control of the enclave from the Fatah movement in June last year.
