...Israel had begun reducing fuel supplies to Gaza and had closed down one of the two crossings through which food, medicines and other supplies pass into the strip, in line with a recent government decision to respond with sanctions to continued rocket fire from the Hamas-run territory..."We sent the supplying company the same daily requests, but they said they were sorry and that because of the new imposed sanctions they could only send us a reduced quantity," Salama [head of the Palestinian Authority's Petrol Agency in Gaza] told Reuters. A spokesman for Dor Alon, the Israeli energy company that supplies Gaza, said the company had "received instructions" from the Defense Ministry and was "acting according to those instructions."