RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A senior Palestinian official said Friday that Israel will allow more building materials into Gaza from next week, as part of a U.N.-brokered deal for rebuilding the war-battered territory.

The shipments will start Sunday, said Mohammed Mustafa, deputy prime minister in the Palestinian unity government that is to oversee the Gaza reconstruction efforts. Palestinian inspectors will be deployed on the Gaza side of the border next week — as early as Sunday — to oversee the imports, Mustafa said in a phone interview.