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Gaza's sole power plant runs out of fuel
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Gazoo Strip's only functioning power plant was out of action Sunday after running out of fuel, the head of the territory's electricity provider told AFP.Samir Metir said that all the plant's fuel, purchased with funding from Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , had been used up. He said it was not clear when the Paleostinian territory would receive more, owing to a "dispute" between the electricity authority in Gazoo and Paleostinian authorities in the West Bank. The Islamist Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", movement seized power in Gazoo in 2007 from the Ramallah-based Fatah organization of Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... A mooted power-sharing agreement in the Strip has failed to materialize, and Gazoo residents have been subjected to a decade-long Israeli blockade severely limiting supplies. Fuel supply for the Strip's two million inhabitants has been a long-running source of dispute, with most homes in Gazoo receiving two eight-hour periods of electricity a day even when the plant is operating normally.
In mid-September, Israel and the Paleostinian Authority signed an agreement to resolve the Paleostinians’ outstanding debt of almost NIS 2 billion ($530 million) to the Israel Electric Corporation. The agreement was signed by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Yoav Mordechai, Paleostinian Authority Minister of Civil Affairs Hussein al-Sheik, Israel’s Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and Israel’s Ministry of Finance Director-General Shai Babad. The IEC began to scale back the electricity flow to West Bank Paleostinian cities in late May and early April due to the debt. Power supplies to Jericho and Bethlehem were limited, causing some blackouts, and the company threatened to do the same in other West Bank areas. The agreement with the IEC from September did not affect the situation in the Gazoo Strip. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-17 |
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