JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel sent troops into northern Gaza on Sunday and cut off petrol supplies to the territory as it moved to isolate the Islamic militants of Hamas who are now in full control.
Israel also pledged to step up support for moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, whose writ is now effectively confined to the occupied West Bank, and was expected to resume full cooperation with his new cabinet, after shunning previous Hamas-led governments for more than a year.
Deputy Defence Minister Ephraim Sneh denied that the Israeli incursion into neighbouring areas of northern Gaza presaged an imminent offensive against the territory.
"These are activities of a preventive character, for the moment we are not going on the offensive in the Gaza Strip," Sneh told public radio.
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