GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A truce seems to have taken a tentative hold between Hamas and Israel, at least as of April 1. Israel has reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing for commercial goods and the Erez crossing for pedestrian traffic with the Gaza Strip, and allowed Palestinians to fish off the coast of the besieged territory.
On March 25, Israel had closed these crossings and banned fishing off Gaza’s coast in response to the injury of seven Israelis north of Tel Aviv by a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip earlier that day.