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Once again, there’s no fuel in Gaza. The gas stations have been emptied, cars are stranded, but this time the fury is not directed at Israel but rather at “our brother,” Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.
Fuel to Gaza is supplied through the Rafah tunnels, usually at much cheaper cost than the prices Israel used to charge for supplying gas to the Strip. Ever since Israel imposed its blockade on Gaza and used the supply of gasoline and diesel fuel as a punitive tool, Hamas decided to cut itself off unilaterally from Israel’s fuel and to replace it with cheap gasoline from Egypt, pumped via makeshift pipes through the tunnels. That decision, as shall soon be made clear, turned out to be a mistake.
