Israel declares Gaza a “hostile entity”
Israel declared the Gaza Strip a “hostile entity.”
The office of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (who is under investigation for corruption) announced a collective-punishment plan that includes
“limiting the transfer of goods to the Gaza Strip, cutting back fuel and electricity, and restricting the movement of people to and from the Strip.”
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum condemned Israel’s “criminal, terrorist Zionist actions.”
Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum responded:
“It is clear that there is an Israeli-American policy that is being implemented against the Palestinian people using the siege, the strangulation, by drying the water resources, stopping medicine and goods from entering and being delivered to our Palestinian people. This comes in preparation to the fall conference which is coming up, in order to force the Palestinian people into submission by starving them so they will give in the to American dictation and to agree to stolen resolutions which will erase Palestinian rights.”