Israeli war minister Naftali Bennett decided last night to freeze entry of cement shipments to the besieged Gaza Strip in response to what he called daily Palestinian attacks on Israeli areas.
According to Maariv newspaper the Israeli army gave instructions at the behest of Bennett to suspend cement exports to Gaza and withdraw permits from 500 cement dealers.
The measure which is to take effect as of Sunday morning was reportedly in response to daily Gaza attacks which resumed recently after the Israeli occupation authority deliberately opened floodgates to dams and flooded vast tracts of farmlands and roads in the east of Gaza causing considerable losses to the agricultural sector in particular.
