Reply #3: looks like they are trying to isolate Gaza and figure out where all the guns & ammo are coming from [View All]

from reuters:
COMPLETE ISOLATION

Israeli Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, whose office controls fuel supplies, called for a complete separation between the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, where Fatah remains dominant.

"We should simply increase the isolation of Gaza," Ben-Eliezer told Israel's Army Radio. "I want to stop everything until we understand what is going on there."

Palestinian officials asked Dor Alon not to cut off any more fuel until further notice, the infrastructure ministry said.

Israel's deputy defence minister, Efraim Sneh, said Gaza will not be cut off completely.

"There will be a crisis in Gaza because it's being controlled by gangs who show no responsibility to the public. Israel is not (Hamas leader) Ismail Haniyeh's welfare office," Sneh said on Israel Radio.

Senior Abbas aide Saeb Erekat said he had asked Israel to allow fuel and raw materials to continue reaching the 1.5 million Palestinians living in Gaza, many of them aid-dependent refugees.

"I have spoken to the Israelis about President Abbas's request to maintain the flow of food, medical supplies, fuel, electricity and water to Gaza," Erekat told Reuters. (Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza and Wafa Amr in Ramallah)

http://wap.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17485730.htm

Erekat was on CNN earlier emphasizing the guns, etc. :shrug: