September 19, 2007
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Wednesday that Israel had effectively declared war by labeling the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip an "enemy entity"."It is a declaration of war and continues the criminal, terrorist Zionist actions against our people," said Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas in the coastal enclave.
Israel's security cabinet declaration on Wednesday that Gaza was an "enemy entity" opened the way for cuts in fuel and other supplies to the territory, an Israeli political source said.
"They aim to starve our people and force them to accept humiliating formulas that could emerge from the so-called November peace conference," Barhoum said, referring to a U.S.-sponsored meeting expected to be held in two months.
Militants in Gaza regularly fire rockets into Israel and Israeli forces have raided the enclave, from which the Jewish state evacuated troops and settlers two years ago.
These are the peaceful people who still hold Gilad Shalit captive more than a year after he was kidnapped, who gave us such loveable TV icons as Jihad Mickey and Nahoul the Killer Bee, and whose little girls make music videos about their suicide-bombing mamas. If it weren't so tragic, it would make a great soap opera or country song. Maybe when Gaza evolves to the trailer-park level, it will have a promising future as the redneck capital of the Middle East.
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