Israel to reopen Gaza terminal

JERUSALEM (Israel) – Israel will reopen Gaza's commercial hand crossing and expanding its fishing zone on Tuesday if a lull in cross-border tensions holds after a truce with the enclave's dominant Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, the Israeli defense minister said.

Israel shut the Kerem Shalom border and reduced the fishing zone to 11 km (6 miles) from 17 km (9 miles) on July 9 in response to

Hostilities escalated last week, with Palestinian gunfire killing an Israeli soldier and Israel's military killing. The violence subsided on Saturday after the United Nations and the United Nations mediated a truce.

"We saw, yesterday, what may have been the calmest day since March 30," Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman told reporters on Sunday.

In weekly Gaza protests since then, at least 140 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army in what it called "protection".

"If today and tomorrow is a continuation of the situation Here at Kerem Shalom (border terminal) and return the fishing zone to the ranges previously in place. "

But later on Sunday, an Israeli drone fired towards Palestinians who were setting off balloons in Israel in the northern Gaza Strip, the military said. Local media said two people, whom did not identify, were wounded.

The Kerem Shalom is the main export-led export for the two million Palestinians of Gaza, which also borders Egypt.

During the terminal's Clerical of the day of the day, with the help of a thousand trucks to a day and a day to the day (19659003) (Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, Writing by Dan Williams and Ori Lewis; by Jason Neely and Dale Hudson)