Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer stated Monday that Israel is the only country in the world that supplies water and electricity to terrorists who try to blow up the supply of the utilities. The Foreign Minister told visiting Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen, "Israel is the only place in the world that supplies electricity to terrorist organizations that launch rockets at it in return."
Minister Ben-Eliezer, in a separate statement, said that Israel has every right to stop the flow of basic utilities to Gaza, where the Hamas authority has built up an army with a large stockpile of missiles and explosives used to attack strategic sites in Israel.