Leila Al Haddad, from Palestine, writes: “Today Israel officially announced Hamas a “hostile entity” (although that sort of had me confused-is this to say they were of “friendly entity” status before??). And made the decision to cut fuel and electricity, once again. But fear not, country folk. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice confirmed reassuringly that the U.S. ‘would not abandon the innocent Palestinians’.”