Palestinian army in Gaza have 5,000 rockets for self-defense

Palestinian army in Gaza have about 5,000 rockets, with ranges of up to 40 kilometres, Israel's internal security organization said Tuesday, dpa reported.

Most of them are self-made, but they also include dozens of technologically advanced models, which can reach the greater Tel Aviv area, said Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin.

Tel Aviv's most southern suburb of Jaffa is some 60 kilometres from Gaza's northern border.

Diskin told an Israeli parliamentary committee dealing with security and foreign affairs that he saw "no problem" in easing restrictions on the flow of goods into Gaza through Israeli border crossings.

Oxfam and other non-governmental organizations said in statements Monday ahead of the anniversary of Israel's economic embargo of Gaza, stringently tightened after the Hamas' takeover, that the Israeli restrictions on the entry of goods into the strip had kept Gaza's 1.5-million-strong civilian population "just above the bar of a humanitarian crisis," but that they were suffering "acute hardship."