Sunday, April 27, 2008
So maybe Tim Butcher will actually pick up the story -- after all, these are reliable sources, right? (see previous, just today: Tim Butcher Becomes Hamas Mouthpiece)
AFP: Hamas blocked fuel for Gaza hospitals: Palestinian ministry
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) -- The Palestinian health ministry in the West Bank on Sunday accused the Islamist Hamas movement of preventing the delivery of fuel oils to hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
"Members of Hamas in the Gaza Strip opened fire on Sunday on fuel trucks that were full of fuel destined for hospitals in the territory," the ministry said in a statement issued in the Palestinian political capital of Ramallah...
...Israel halted deliveries of fuel to Gaza on April 9 after Palestinian militants attacked the Nahal Oz terminal, through which all of Gaza's fuel needs are delivered.
It says it cannot deliver any more fuel as the tanks on the Palestinian side of the terminal are full because Hamas will not allow the distribution of the one million litres of petrol and diesel stored there...
JTA: Hamas keeps fuel from aid agency
The trucks turned back without the fuel, that was supposed to go to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and to Gaza hospitals, the Jerusalem Post reported Sunday, quoting sources in the Palestinian Petroleum Authority.
Israel agreed over the weekend to provide the Palestinian Petroleum Authority with 250,000 additional liters of fuel to enable it to distribute food aid in the Gaza Strip.
The Post reported that Hamas members had confiscated fuel-laden trucks as they headed to Gaza City at least four times in the last several weeks. Palestinian Authority officials accuse Hamas of trying to create a fuel crisis in order to cause the international community to pressure Israel to open border crossings.
What's amazing is the way the press (including the AFP report linked above if you read the whole thing) continue to try to twist things into making Israel at fault, even though the only reason they're not pumping more fuel is because the tanks on the Gaza side are full.
Meanwhile, Hamas continues to play a double game with the international community, pretending that they themselves aren't behind the striking Palestinian fuel workers: Hamas urges end of fuel strike in Gaza
Silly.
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What is truly sad are all the idiots that will blame Israel for the depredations of Hamas.