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![]() Mortar falls near fuel tanker at Nachal Oz Israel News Photo: Flash 90 ![]() Check It Out More ![]() | Published: 04/21/08, 2:35 PM Gazan Arabs Support More Terrorism Against Israelby Baruch Gordon (IsraelNN.com) Over sixty-five percent of Arabs in Gaza support continued suicide bombings against Israeli civilians, according to a report released Monday by the Arab Jerusalem Media and Communication Center. Sixty-nine percent are "pessimistic" or "very pessimistic" about reaching any peaceful settlement with Israel. The poll also found that half of the Arabs who live in Gaza have positive feelings about PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, whose Hamas party won significantly in the most recent elections. This, even though 81 percent of them believe economic conditions have deteriorated under his leadership. Nearly 50 percent of Gaza's civilians feel that launching rockets at Israeli civilians is a "useful" means of terrorism. Only 31.4 percent believe that firing rockets on Israel is "futile." The above results are based on interviews with a representative sampling of 439 Arabs from Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel is allowing the transfer of hundreds of truckloads of food and supplies per week into Gaza via the crossings that have been attacked five times in the last tens days alone. Remains of one of the car bombs detonated at the Kerem Shalom crossing Saturday morning Photo: IDF Spokesman A source in the Israel-Gaza Coordination office explained that the UN and the World Food Program donate most of the food supplies Israel lets through.. The equipment is largely ordered from Israeli factories and paid for by Gazan Arab wholesalers. "Israel sees an interest in keeping the local Gazan economy alive," said the source, "despite the constant attacks on Israel." The last two weeks of supplies to Gaza Arabs are documented below, with the terror attacks on those transfer points interspersed chronologically:
Less than 24 hours later, on Saturday, April 19, Gazan Arabs bombed that crossing site, using two vehicles filled with explosives. The potential mass-murder and kidnapping attempt wounded 13 IDF soldiers. A third car bomb in the attack did not explode. A fourth car bomb was detonated by IDF forces at a different location before it reached its target. Two of the cars used in the attack were made to appear to be IDF vehicles; the third car was an armored vehicle. The IDF spokesman is investigating whether the armored vehicle was one of the many Israel authorized to be transferred to Gaza. The armored vehicle laden with explosives which was detonated by a suicide bomber at Kerem Shalom crossing on Saturday Photo: IDF spokesman
Mortar shell falls near fuel truck at Nachal Oz crossing on April 9, 2008 Israel News Photo: Flash 90 That same day, 130 truckloads of supplies were sent to Gaza.
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