TEL AVIV - Israel eased its blockade of the Gaza Strip Sunday, allowing more goods into the impoverished salient three days after a six-month truce with Palestinian militants went into effect.An Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv said 90 trucks loaded with humanitarian goods entered the Strip Sunday via the Sufa crossing, a greater number than the amount transferred on an almost daily basis before the truce went into effect.
The Nahal Oz crossing, used to transfer fuel to the Strip, was also operating, the spokesman said, as were the Erez and Karni crossing points, but the Kerem Shalom terminal, which was attacked by Palestinian militants in April, remained shut. Israel had imposed a blockade on the Strip in response to near- daily rocket and mortar attacks from the enclave at its southern towns and villages.