This one slipped through the nets, but it’s a great little piece of news. There’s a silver lining to the closure of Gaza: The terrorists are running out of supplies to manufacture their rockets and bombs.
Shortages in fertilizers used by Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip to produce makeshift rockets have led to a decrease in the number of rockets fired towards Israel.
Ynet found that Palestinian terror groups prefer to save their rockets for rainy days.
But rockets continued to be fired towards Israel on Sunday, with three rockets landing in the western Negev.
The shortages have been blamed on Egypt’s clampdown on smugglers operating along the border with the Gaza Strip and Israel’s closure of border crossings used to transfer goods into the coastal territory.
The price of a kilo of fertilizer rose from $20 to $50.
But of course, the shortages aren’t really affecting the Palestinians. Nothing really does when it comes to murdering Jews.
Palestinian operatives confirmed the shortages to Ynet but said they still had large quantities of rockets stored in secret caches.
“In addition to the smugglings, our people are producing a similar substitute. But the shortages also apply to materials we use to produce fertilizers and substitutes to it and therefore there is a crisis and the situation is difficult,” one operative said.
The shortage led Hamas gunmen to storm the Fatah-affiliated al-Azhar University where they confiscated dozens of kilos of fertilizers.
Best fact of all:
Terror groups also face shortages in steel used to build the rockets. The price of a steel rod rose from NIS 120 to NIS 800.
Good. May it go even higher.
Israel should only let basic food (Bread and water) into the strip!
Hamas has inflation problems. Who would have thunk it !!
Of course the UN will insist that it is all Israel’s fault that the “invaders” (English translation of the word Philistines which is the real word mistransliterated as Palestinians) do not have sufficient fertilizer to grow food. They will pass a resolution insisting that Israel give them more.
It’s only to be expected. Fatah was a much more proficient generator of fertilizer than Hamas is.
The modern-day Palestinians sometimes like to claim kinship with the Philistines of the Bible (and the English word “Palestine” derives from “Philistine”), but there is no relationship between these two groups of people.
The Palestinians are of Arabic descent, natives of the Middle Easat. The Philistines were a seafaring people, generally believed to have originated from an island in the Aegean Sea, possibly Crete. Archaeology shows a connection between them and Mycenean Greece.
See also Wikipedia’s description.
You are mighty generous Shimshon. Why should Israel send food to people who claim to be at war with Israel and are determined to destroy that country and kill all its Jewish inhabitants? If the people of Gaza, who voted Hamas in, want war let them have war. Let them eat those missiles and other arms the Iranians sent them, and I hppe they find them appetizing.