May 26, 2016

• Israel: Hamas Stealing 95 Percent of Civilian Cement Transferred to Gaza – Tovah Lazaroff
  Hamas is siphoning off 95% of the cement transferred into Gaza to rebuild homes, so that it can use it for military purposes, Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold said on Tuesday. “From our own investigations we found that out of every 100 sacks of cement that come into the Gaza Strip [from Israel], only five or six are transferred to civilians,” Gold told the UN World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul. “Since October, Israel has let into Gaza 4,824,000 tons of building materials and these have often times been seized and used to build new attack tunnels penetrating Israeli territory.”  (Jerusalem Post)