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<div id="divNewsDatetime">Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:14AM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc">A Gazan carrying UNRWA aid food (file photo)</div>
<div id="divLead">The  UN says Israel has kept a commercial crossing into the besieged Gaza  Strip shut for the seventh straight day, raising serious concerns over  shortage of essential supplies in the besieged coastal enclave.</div>
<p>The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides aid to more  than two thirds of Gaza&#8217;s population of 1.5 million, says more than 172  truckloads of essential materials are waiting to cross into the  impoverished sliver, Reuters reported Tuesday.</p>
<p>The UNRWA, which sends about 20 truckloads of basic goods into Gaza  every day, says a shortage of supplies in the strip is looming.</p>
<p>Christopher Gunness, a spokesman for UNRWA, says he was &#8220;extremely  worried&#8221; that essential supplies may run out in the blockaded region.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights has  warned that there is a lack of 150 types of basic medicines in the  coastal enclave.</p>
<p>Gaza at its southernmost point shares a border crossing with Egypt,  Rafah, but commercial goods are brought in only via a terminal  controlled by Israel.</p>
<p>Tel Aviv has been recurrently bombarding Gaza ever since its 22-day  war on the impoverished enclave in December 2008 and January 2009, which  killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and inflicted a damage of $1.6  billion on the region&#8217;s already-stagnant economy.</p>
<p>The Israeli hostility rages on while Tel Aviv refuses to lift an  all-out blockade it imposed on Gaza in mid-June 2007 in cooperation with  the recently ousted regime of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.</p>
<p>The siege has deprived the Gaza population of food, fuel and  medicine, triggering stunted growth and malnutrition among most  Palestinian children.</p>
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