Terror attack kills two civilians

Terrorists from Gaza killed two workers who supply Gazans with fuel, and set the tanks on fire.

Two Israeli men in their 30s were killed Wednesday afternoon in exchanges of fire that erupted near the Nahal Oz fuel terminal in the central Gaza Strip, the Magen David Adom emergency services reported. Medical teams were making their way to the scene of the incident.

It was another attempt to kidnap Israelis. Just as Hamas warned.

IDF officials estimated that during the incident in Nahal Oz, three-to-five gunmen infiltrated the fuel terminal, hit the two Israelis and fled back into the Strip. According to the army, the terror cell set out to abduct soldiers in the area. Simultaneously, a large number of mortar shells were fired at the area.

The mortar barrage is still going on.

And Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party was right in the middle of the attack.

According to the source, the gunmen were affiliated with the Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees’ the Salah al-Din Brigades, and Fatah’s Mujahideen fighters of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. The source further said the fight “will go on until the last bullet.”

As usual, Hamas is using the Palestinians to exacerbate the Gaza problem and try to make the world blame Israel for all of Gaza’s ills. If Israel stops sending fuel to the Palestinians, the world will not say, “Well, gee, yeah, they just tried to blow up the fuel depot that supplies them.” No, the world will blame Israel for not supplying them with fuel—no matter what.

The terror attack in Nahal Oz was “aimed at creating a crisis in Gaza that will be directed at Israel,” said commander of the District Coordination Office at Erez crossing Colonel Nir Peres Wednesday.

Peres said that in recent days the Palestinian have stopped transferring fuel from the crossings, but have blamed Israel for the shortage in supplies.

In the meantime, Israel will be blamed.

It was unclear how much damage, if any, was done to the fuel depot at the crossing. Even if no serious damage was caused, the raid could prompt Israel to block, on security grounds, future deliveries and force the power plant to shut down.

[…] “This a cynical attack,” an official added. “On the one hand, Hamas complains of the blockade on Gaza, and on the other hand it is responsible for the attack on the fuel terminal, which provides gas and fuel to the residents of the Strip,” he stated.

Watch for the spin in the news services.