Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Wednesday ceased oil transfers to the Gaza Strip after a Qassam rocket hit the Nahal Oz fuel terminal.
The spokesman of IDF told Xinhua that the rocket fired by Palestinian militants hit the Gaza side of the Nahal Oz crossing. One Palestinian worker was severely wounded.
No Palestinian militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack amid ongoing similar home-made rocket attacks targeting Israeli communities along the border with the Gaza Strip.
The attack prompted IDF to close the transfers of industrial fuel, cooking gas and diesel to the territory of 1.5 million Palestinians, the spokesman said.
It is unclear when Israeli army will reopen the terminal.
Israel closed all the border crossings into Gaza Strip after Hamas took over the impoverished region in June last year.
In September, Israel began to allow sporadic supply of diesel and cooking gas, the only two sorts which Israel kept allowing into Gaza since it imposed restrictions on the fuel deliveries.
Hamas controls the distribution of the reduced shipments; it accumulates the fuel and then allows the gas stations to provide for the transportation.
Source:Xinhua
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