GAZA, July 28 (RIA Novosti) - Israel has allowed a shipment of automobile fuel for general sale into the Gaza Strip for the first time in 10 months, the deputy head of the association of gas station owners said on Tuesday.

Since October last year, Israel severely limited energy supplies to the enclave, allowing only domestic gas, fuel oil for Gaza's sole electric power station, and small volumes of diesel or gasoline for ambulances and vehicles belonging to the United Nations and other international humanitarian organizations.

"If in October last year Israel supplied 800,000 liters of diesel and 75,000 liters of gasoline a week, then the weekly norm is now 100,000 liters of diesel and 40,000 liters of gasoline," Mahmoud Khazendar said.

Palestinians managed with the reduced supplies by smuggling Egyptian gasoline, which is half the price of Israeli gasoline, through tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border.