Then, after getting some "emergency fuel" they shot a bunch more missiles and mortar rounds into Israel.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4955As trucks bring Gaza fuel, medicines and food from Israel - Palestinians fire 17 missiles Tuesday at Israeli targetsJanuary 22, 2008, 6:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
No casualties were reported in Sderot where
10 Qassam missiles exploded or S.
Ashkelon which took two hits Tuesday,. Jan. 22. Gaza’s power station is working again, powered by Israeli fuel. The UN Security Council meets Tuesday night for a session called by Arab governments to denounce Israel.
Monday night, Barak caved in and gave a “one-time†order to resume the heavy fuel and medicines deliveries to the Gaza Strip after two days’ slowdown as a sanction against a
hail of up to 40-50 missiles a day Hamas and its allies were raining down on Israeli civilians. He surrendered to the international and Arab pressure drummed up by Hamas’ highly telegenic humanitarian crisis and its success in blotting out its own “collective punishment†of the next-door Israeli population.
Neither the foreign ministry nor the army spokesman was geared to fend off the impact of Hamas’ darkness-in-Gaza stunt. By the time they protested that
Israel under heavy missile fire was feeding Gaza 75 percent of its electricity and its hospitals (unlike those in Arab countries) were caring for dozens of Palestinian patients from the Gaza Strip, no one was listening.
This episode had three immediate effects:
1. Hamas successfully mustered Arab opinion across the Middle East against the Western siege imposed on the terrorist-ruled Gaza Strip.
2. The prestige of Palestinian Authority leaders Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyed suffered a knock for failing to force its peace partner, Israel, to lift the siege of Gaza.
3. Israel’s surrender to pressure was an object lesson for the Lebanese terrorist group Hizballah, as well as the Palestinian Islamists Hamas. Hassan Nasrallah has launched his own propaganda campaign against Israel over the remains of soldiers allegedly left in Lebanon from the 2006 war.
4. The plight of Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants did not reached crisis point – unlike the dwindling Israeli communities living under constant Palestinian missile fire.
Yet their plight never made it to the world media in the same way as the show of suffering in Gazan.
Olmert and Barak are widely criticized in Israeli political and military circles for abruptly clamping down sanctions on Gaza without proper preparation and without being sure they could take the heat.