Israel shut the Kerem Shalom border terminal and reduced the fishing zone to 11 km from 17 km on July 9 in response to fire-starting kites and helium balloons flown over by Paleostinians as part of weeks of border protests.
Hostilities escalated last week, with Paleostinian gunfire killing an Israeli soldier and Israel’s military killing three Hamas fighters and a fourth Paleostinian. The violence subsided on Saturday after Egypt and the United Nations
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mediated a truce.
"We saw, yesterday, what might have been the calmest day since March 30," Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman told news hounds on Sunday.
In weekly Gazoo protests since then, at least 140 Paleostinians have been killed by the Israeli army in what it called border protection.
"If today and tomorrow see a continuation of the situation as it was yesterday, then on Tuesday we will resume routine activity here at Kerem Shalom (border terminal) and return the fishing zone to the ranges previously in place."
Kerem Shalom is the main export-import conduit for the 2 million Paleostinians of Gazoo, which also borders Egypt.
During the terminal’s closure, humanitarian aid
was still allowed through Lieberman said traffic slowed to about 140 trucks a day from some 1,000 to 1,100 trucks per day.