"You mean like the night vision equipment and mircoswave ovens"
No, I mean the complete blockade on medical equipment, drugs, bandages and food - at least, according to the Reuter report that appeared in my paper and the television news - on the same day that the rocket attack was reported. No supplies, 'regulated' or otherwise were allowed through, nor are building supplies at the present time.
While we're on to anecdotes about bad behavior:
Last year (The Sunday Times), in one of its many incursions into Gaza the Israeli army took over a Palestinian house as a lookout post.
The three soldiers billeted there were treated with extreme courtesy, given drinks, food and blankets by the Palestinian occupants (more or less the same hospitality I have always found when visiting an Arab country), and in return for that hospitality the soldiers shat in every cooking utensil in the house.
None of which addresses the fact that the Israelis are illegal invaders.
Jim Carroll