Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman says the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers are to blame for his decision to stop shipments of fuel and gas into the Palestinian enclave.
“The State of Israel was prepared to improve the civilian situation in the Gaza Strip, but the decision of the Hamas leadership to use serious violence – especially on the same day in which tankers of diesel fuel were brought into the Gaza Strip – is what brought about the decision to cut off the supply of fuels,” Liberman writes in a message to Gaza residents on the Facebook page of the military liaison to the Palestinians.
“All of the responsibility for the deterioration in the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip belongs to Hamas and Hamas alone.”
Liberman also calls on Palestinians in Gaza to take action against Hamas, which he says takes its marching orders from Iran.
“I call on you, residents of Gaza: Act against the extremist leadership that has taken you hostage in the service of the Iranian ayatollahs,” he says, without specifying what sort of action they should take.
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