GAZA - Israel will allow a one-time transfer of cement into Gaza for the first time since its war in the enclave and amid a new US peace push in the region, officials said on Wednesday.
Hardline Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak okayed the transfer of more than 310 tonnes of cement for rebuilding a flour mill, a sewage treatment facility and the British cemetery, one defence official said.
The one-off consignment will also include some steel and is expected to be transferred "in the coming weeks," he said.
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