According to a 2006 report by rival Fatah party, Hamas had smuggled between several hundred and 1, 300 tons of advanced rockets, along with other weaponry, into Gaza.

According to the Bible, they ruled the five city-states ( the " Philistine Pentapolis ") of Gaza, Askelon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gath, from the Wadi Gaza in the south to the Yarqon River in the north, but with no fixed border to the east.

According to Salam Fayyad — a former World Bank official whom Arafat appointed Finance Minister of the PNA in 2002 — Arafat's commodity monopolies could accurately be seen as gouging his own people, " especially in Gaza which is poorer, which is something that is totally unacceptable and immoral.

According to Yoav Gelber, after one month of training a patrol of Unit 101 infiltrated into the Gaza Strip as an exercise.

According to Donald Neff, " The immediate cause " of the First Intifada came on 8 December 1987, " when an Israeli army tank transporter ran into a group of Palestinians from Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza Strip, killing four and injuring seven.

According to a newspaper report of a lecture given by one of the leaders of Hamas, Mahmoud al-Zahar, at the Islamic University in Gaza City, when Yasser Arafat realized that peace talks with Israel weren ’ t going anywhere, he ordered Hamas to launch terror attacks against Israel.

According to Israeli, Palestinian, Lebanese and independent reports, the Israeli assault UAV has seen extensive service in the Gaza Strip and was used intensively in the Second Lebanon War.

According to the IDF he was entering the Gaza Strip in order to " form and train a commando unit for the Palestinian terror organization.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Israeli officials stated that the " Palestinian Authority and the rest of the international community had agreed to the off-shore blockade to prevent arms smuggling into Gaza.

According to Eyad Sarraj, Palestinian psychiatrist and director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, a survey his group made found that 36 % of Palestinians over 12 aspired to die " a martyr's death " fighting Israel.

According to information obtained from the Israeli Department of Defense, Israel revoked the residency status of more than 100, 000 residents of the Gaza Strip and of around 140, 000 residents of the West Bank during the 27 years between Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967 and the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994.

According to an Al-Jazeera report ( July 2010 ) the Gaza tunnels are going out of business: But now that Israel is allowing more goods into Gaza, the smugglers have started going out of business.

According to one report, the cost of smuggling a person from Egypt into the Gaza strip is $ 1, 000.

According to author Said Aburish, he had " impressive knowledge of local conditions " in the Israeli-occupied territories, apparently knowing " every village, school, and large family in Gaza and the West Bank ".

According to Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, Gold and Netanyahu advisor Yitzhak Molcho were the first envoys of the newly-elected Likud government to meet with Yasser Arafat in the Gaza Strip on June 27, 1996.

According to Palestinian evaluations, The West Bank is inhabited by approximately 2. 4 million Palestinians and the Gaza Strip by another 1. 4 million.

According to Haim Shibi, the report about Gaza was compiled without " consulting a single Israeli source.

According to the IDF, the rocket fired at Kibbutz Alumim in the Negev marked the first time militants in Gaza have used this type of weapon.

According to the management, the crossing is named after Joseph Karni, an Israeli who had set up a modern packing warehouse in the Gaza Strip near the present-day cargo terminal shortly after Israel captured the strip in 1967.

According to their website the organization hopes to pressure U. S. political leaders to enforce UN Security Council Resolutions 194, 242 and 338, relating to the establishment of an independent Palestinian State in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

According to Choricius of Gaza, Oration XIII, the festival was celebrated as late as the 6th century AD during the reign of Emperor Justinian I who otherwise persecuted paganism ;

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

According to his introduction: " Scrooge being my favorite character in comic history and Barks my favourite pure cartoonist, I'll try not to get carried away too much.

According to another comic poet, Teleclides, the plays of Euripides were co-authored by the philosopher Socrates.

According to the 2009 film Star Trek and the prequel comic series Star Trek: Countdown, Romulus ( and presumably Remus ) is destroyed in 2387 by a star going supernova.

According to comic book writer and editor Bob Budiansky, The Transformers character Shockwave was inspired by Spock.

According to the Wizard comic his surname was Brown.

According to a surviving fragment from a work (" Brothers ") by the comic playwright Philemon, Solon established publicly funded brothels at Athens in order to " democratize " the availability of sexual pleasure.

According to commentary on the DVD collection for the show's first season, part of Krypton's appearance was influenced by the artistic style of American comic book artist Jack Kirby.

According to a comic story by Don Rosa, it is an 1875 Seated Liberty dime, but in a comic story written by Pat and Carol McGreal and drawn by Maximino Tortajada Aguilar, the last two digits have been swapped, making it an 1857 Seated Liberty dime.

According to an anonymous biographer of Aeschylus, the Athenians chose Simonides ahead of Aeschylus to be the author of an epigram honouring their war-dead at Marathon, which led the tragedian ( who had fought at the battle and whose brother had died there ) to withdraw sulking to the court of Hieron of Syracuse — the story is probably based on the inventions of comic dramatists but it is likely that Simonides did in fact write some kind of commemorative verses for the Athenian victory at Marathon.

According to sf historian and critic Mike Ashley, its success was the main reason for a subsequent flood of new releases: 22 more science fiction magazines appeared by 1954, when the market dipped again as a side effect of US Senate hearings into the putative connection between comic books and juvenile delinquency.

According to Wertham, news vendors were told by the distributors that if they did not sell the objectionable comic books, they would not be allowed to sell any of the other publications being distributed.

According to the live-action series, The Tick is 6 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 230 pounds ( 6 inches and 170 pounds less than his dimensions in the comic ), and has blue hair and eyes.

According to Kip Winger, in a 2008 interview with rock and roll comic C. C.

According to a NODA National News feature in 2007, the Murgatroyd family are reputed to be the inspiration for the Murgatroyd Baronets in the comic opera Ruddigore by Gilbert and Sullivan, and the opera has been performed at the Hall.

According to Seinfeld's biography ( written by Jerry Oppenheimer ), Elaine was based in part on Susan McNabb ( who was dating Seinfeld when the character was created ), though eventually named after friend and fellow comic Elayne Boosler.

According to Woody Allen ( in a New York Times interview from January 30, 2000 ), W. C. Fields is one of only six " genuine comic geniuses " he recognized as such in movie history, along with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho and Harpo Marx, and Peter Sellers.

According to an interview with famous comic book artist Jack Kirby some time after the hijacking, he and Leon were close friends, having grown up together in New York's lower east side on Suffolk Street.

According to the first chapter of Wildstorm ’ s comic ThunderCats Origins: Heroes and Villains, the Third Earth is actually our Earth in the future ; the present day is " First Earth.

According to an ongoing comic book series from Dark Horse called Star Wars: Legacy, which takes place 125 years after Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Cade Skywalker, son of Kol Skywalker and a direct descendant of Luke Skywalker, is the last surviving Skywalker of his time.

According to the Stingray comic strip in the weekly Countdown comic there was more than one Stingray class submarine in the Marineville fleet.

According to longtime NSA computer expert Samuel Simon Snyder, " We chose the name from Li ' l Abner Yokum, the comic strip character who was a big brute, but not very smart, because we believed that computers, which can be big and do brute-force operations, aren't very bright either.