""But I must point out that, be that as it may re the rest of your last post; you have not answered my question as to how the rockets are getting in. They must be getting in somehow. How?""

I'm rather tired of answering that question Mike, but for the third time, they are smuggled in through the tunnels, broken down into components.

As to getting food and household goods in the same way, I've answered that too.

It is a difficult, but viable, task to smuggle 10,000 rockets over ten years (about three a day) in bits.

To bring in enough food to make the slightest difference to a population of 1.7 million is a whole different ball game.

That is the major reason why I am not accepting Keith's assertions that Israel is trucking in sufficient for Gaza to export food.

What he calls exporting food boils down to one factory supplying date bars to the West Bank schools (with the assistance of a charity because Gaza is allowed no direct access to that area), wich can hardly be fairly called exporting (the West Baank being part of Palestine) and will make zero difference to the economic situation in Gaza, where the majority couldn't afford to buy those date bars if they wanted to.

The current Israeli government, through their so-called "defence" force is in de facto control of the lives of every Gaza resident, whatever objections Keith may have to the idea.

He who controls the supply of food, water and power is the one who rules a country by virtue of his ability to withdraw all three.

Don T.