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  • Sole Gaza power plant out of fuel

    10/11/2023 7:30:21 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 47 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/11/2023 | TARA SUTER
    The sole power plant in Gaza officially ran out of fuel on Wednesday amid fighting between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, and was shut down. Israel cut off supplies — including food, water, fuel and medicine — to the area after Hamas, who controls the Gaza Strip, launched a surprise attack over the weekend. The access point into Egypt was also closed on Tuesday as a result of airstrikes. Counterattacks from Israel have destroyed neighborhoods in Gaza — home to more than 2.3 million Palestinians. At least 2,200 have been killed on both sides, officials said.
  • Palestinian Authority 'stops paying Israel for Gaza electricity'

    04/27/2017 10:00:23 PM PDT · by Lera · 32 replies
    BBC ^ | 27 April 2017
    The West Bank-based Palestinian Authority has told Israel that it will stop paying for electricity supplied to the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials say. There was no confirmation from the PA. But President Mahmoud Abbas has threatened "unprecedented steps" to end the political division with the rival Hamas movement, which dominates Gaza. Hamas called Thursday's move "a grave escalation and an act of madness".