"The blockade and the tunnel closure are already blamed for the scarcity
of construction materials, rising unemployment and deepening suffering
for the impoverished Palestinians there. This has now made officials of
Hamas Movement that controls the territory to think of new ways to
devise mechanisms for wider flows of goods and materials into the
enclave. Hamas officials say they have proposed to delegate control of
key crossings with Egypt and Israel to private enterprises. But the
acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, who should decide over
this, is not expected to approve it. "