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| Israel halts Gaza fuel after depot attack |
| 2008-06-05 |
| Israel suspended fuel deliveries to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Wednesday after a mortar fired by Palestinian militants struck the territory's only fuel depot, wounding a Palestinian worker. "Fuel deliveries were frozen after the mortar hit," said Gil Karie, a spokesman for the Israeli District Coordination Office, which oversees deliveries to Gaza, adding, "They are checking the situation. We don't know yet if it will open again today, or at what time." Deliveries of European Union-funded fuel to Gaza's sole power station were not affected by the freeze at the Nahal Oz depot because no deliveries had been scheduled for Wednesday, said a EU official. Israel has reduced fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip since Hamas Islamists seized the coastal territory in June 2007. Israel has suspended fuel deliveries in the past after militant attacks. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Amnon Rosenberg, 51, a father of three from Kibbutz Nirim was killed, two others were seriously wounded and a fourth suffered light wounds noontime Thursday when a mortar shell fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip hit a factory in the western Negev kibbutz of Nir Oz. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-06-05 12:59 |
| #3 G(r)omgoru gets the One-Liner prize. Every time a bomb goes off at the Depot, one week of no deliveries. Every time a rocket is launched at Siderot, one week of no deliveries, to be cumulative. If "collective punishment!" is shouted, answer "Siderot is collective punishment." |
| Posted by: Ptah 2008-06-05 09:56 |
| #2 Shallow Learning Curve Whose? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-06-05 06:51 |
| #1 This week's episode of "Shallow Learning Curve"... |
| Posted by: mojo 2008-06-05 00:09 |