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GAZA-Two major Gaza universities suspended classes on Tuesday, saying a fuel crisis in the Hamas-controlled territory was making it difficult for students to travel.The pro-Hamas Islamic University and al-Aqsa University, identified with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah movement, told students and teachers they could stay at home until next Saturday.Al-Kamalain Shaath, president of the Islamic University, said only about 30 percent of its 20,000 students had attended class in recent days.He said most of the students lived outside the city and "it is not easy to walk".The crisis developed when petrol station owners in the Gaza Strip refused to accept fuel supplied by Israel, in protest at smaller quantities piped into the territory.The situation worsened after Israel's decision to close the Nahal Oz crossing point, where two Israeli civilians were killed in an attack last week by militants on the only terminal for transferring fuel to the Gaza Strip and its 1.5 million people. Israeli officials accuse Hamas of preventing distribution of fuel already pumped into the territory in order to create a crisis to pressure Israel to ease the blockade it tightened after the Islamist group seized the Gaza Strip in June."The crisis in Gaza is part of the choice made by the residents of Gaza to take Hamas as its leader," Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told reporters in the southern town of Sderot, a frequent target of cross-border rocket attacks.To read more go to:
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