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<p class="date">Monster &amp; Critics | Jan 5, 2011, 13:12 GMT</p>
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<p>Oslo &#8211; Israel informed the United States of its intent to  keep the economy in Hamas-ruled <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" style="text-decoration:underline!important;position:static;font-family:inherit!important;font-weight:inherit!important;font-size:inherit!important;" href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1609534.php/Leaked-US-cables-offer-details-of-Israeli-Gaza-strategy#" target="undefined"><span style="color:#008000!important;font-family:inherit!important;font-weight:inherit!important;font-size:inherit!important;position:static;"><span class="kLink" style="color:#008000!important;font-family:inherit!important;font-weight:inherit!important;font-size:inherit!important;position:relative;">Gaza</span></span></a> at &#8216;the lowest level&#8217; without  triggering &#8216;a humanitarian crisis,&#8217; a  Norwegian daily said Wednesday,  citing leaked US diplomatic cables.</p>
<p>The decisions included how much Israeli currency is allowed to   circulate in Gaza, according to US diplomatic cables leaked by   whistle-blower site WikiLeaks and quoted by the daily Aftenposten.</p>
<p>The radical Islamist Palestinian Hamas movement has ruled Gaza  since  2007 and in the diplomatic cables, US officials reported to  Washington  about failed efforts to persuade Israel to allow more  currency flows.</p>
<p>The published cables were sent before Israel launched a <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" style="text-decoration:underline!important;position:static;font-family:inherit!important;font-weight:inherit!important;font-size:inherit!important;" href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1609534.php/Leaked-US-cables-offer-details-of-Israeli-Gaza-strategy#" target="undefined"><span style="color:#008000!important;font-family:inherit!important;font-weight:inherit!important;font-size:inherit!important;position:static;"><span class="kLink" style="color:#008000!important;font-family:inherit!important;font-weight:inherit!important;font-size:inherit!important;position:relative;">Gaza </span><span class="kLink" style="color:#008000!important;font-family:inherit!important;font-weight:inherit!important;font-size:inherit!important;position:relative;"> </span><span class="kLink" style="color:#008000!important;font-family:inherit!important;font-weight:inherit!important;font-size:inherit!important;position:relative;">offensive</span></span></a> &#8211; which it called &#8216;Operation Cast Lead&#8217; &#8211; at the end of  December 2008  to halt rockets fired on Israeli towns and villages  near the Gaza  border.</p>
<p>A November 2008 cable mentioned concerns by the  Palestinian  Authority (PA), which sits in the West Bank, that Hamas  could gain  further support by being able to pay employees while the PA  was  unable to do so.</p>
<p>Aftenposten in December said it had  acquired full access to  whistle-blower website WikiLeaks&#8217; cache of some  250,000 US diplomatic  cables.</p>
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