The people in the Gaza Strip not only need the fuels for cars but also for running generators at home, as Gaza's main power station has stopped operation. The enclave needs 300 megawatts of power but only receives 120 megawatts from Israel and 24 from Egypt.

Although the Gaza population related the crisis to Egypt's restrictions on smuggling, but Yousef Rezqa, an aide to the head of the Hamas government Ismail Haneya, told Xinhua that the Egyptian intelligence, who works to topple the Hamas rule, "is behind the crisis."

"The crisis is completely political. Particularly, the Egyptian intelligence has a hand in it. We hope that Egypt will be part of the solution, not part of deterioratio of the crisis," said Rezqa.

Hamas movement, which had violently seized control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, had arranged massive rallies near the Egyptian bordert, demanding the Egyptian authorities help solve the crisis.

Meanwhile, Egypt's ambassador to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Yasser Othman on Tuesday told a local Radio station in Gaza that Egypt is not to be blamed for the crisis, adding that his country, which also suffers a shortage of fuels, are making intensive efforts to help end Gaza's energy crisis.

"Egypt suffers a 30-percent shortage of fuels and has to import fuels to tackle the problem. But we will help Gaza by importing more fuels and sell them to it by the international price, and this will be done soon," said Othman.

On Wednesday, Gaza energy authorities announced that it had transferred 2 million U.S. dollars to Egypt for the purchase of fuels to restart the main power station that stopped running in February.

Ahmed Abu al-Amrin, a spokesman of Gaza energy authorities told Xinhua that they are waiting for the arrival of the fuels through Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

Hamas authorities reached a deal with Egypt earlier this month, under which Gaza's energy crisis will be solved in three stages. Restarting the power station is the first step towards this effort, and Gaza's power supplies will be enhanced by strident boost in the second stage and the enlave's grid will be linked the regional power network in the third phase.