Gaza’s Sole Electricity Plant to Shut down Due to Fuel Shortages
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Fuel shortages in the besieged Gaza Strip are forcing the enclave’s only electricity plant to shut down tomorrow morning, the Palestinian Power Authority announced yesterday.
In a statement, the Power Authority said the plant “will completely stop as its fuel is expected to run out.”
The Power Authority said that the Israeli occupation “stopped fuel supplies for the electricity plant entering on Wednesday.”
Palestinians living in Gaza suffer regular blackouts as a result of the fuel shortages with electricity being provided for less than 12 hours a day.
Last year, Qatar started to pay for the fuel needed to run the electricity plant but Israel no longer allowed its entry as part of punishing measures being imposed on Gaza, including stopping access to Gaza’s waters and a ban on the entry of several materials including cement.
Gaza, with a population of 2 million, has been under a hermetic Israeli siege since 2006, when the Palestinian group Hamas won the democratic legislative elections in occupied Palestine. Since then, Israel has carried out numerous bombing campaigns and several major wars, that resulted in the death of thousands of people.
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