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Israel to cut over a quarter of electricity provided to Gaza
Intra-Palestinian squabbling, for which Israel will shortly be blamed.
[Ynet] As part of a power struggle between the PA and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, Abbas decides to cut down the amount of money the PA pays for Gazoo's electricity, leading Israel to reduce the electricity to the strip accordingly.

In two weeks' time, Israel will cut over a quarter of the electricity it provides the Gazoo Strip, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announced Thursday.

Every month, Israel provides the Gazoo Strip with 125 megawatts of electricity, which costs NIS 40 million on average. Israel takes that sum out of the tax money it collects for the Paleostinian Authority.

Two months ago, the PA decided to stop paying that sum due to a power struggle with the Hamas government. The PA had demanded control over the Gazoo Strip, including control over border crossings, as well as to receive the taxes Hamas collects from Paleostinians in Gazoo for services the PA provides.

Hamas rejected these demands outright, leading Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
 to gradually cut down on the services the PA provides the strip for as long as it has no control over the enclave.

Hamas, meanwhile, formed a committee to govern the Gazoo Strip instead of the Paleostinian unity government that sits in Ramallah, which Hamas claims does not take care of the strip's needs.

At first, the PA informed COGAT it was no longer willing to pay for Gazoo's electricity. However it has recently softened its position, telling COGAT that starting next month it will pay NIS 25-30 million every month instead of NIS 40 million.

As a result, Israel has decided to reduce the electricity it provides the strip accordingly.

"Hamas prefers its own interests and those of its senior members," said GOCAT, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai. "Every tunnel in the Gazoo Strip has a generator, and only after that do the people get electricity. This failure is not ours. This is a conflict between Hamas and the PA. If Hamas decides the electricity will go to hospitals and civilians instead of Hamas members and Yahya Sinwar, the public in the Gazoo Strip won't have a problem."

Because of the electricity crisis in the strip, an average Paleostinian home gets about six hours of electricity per day.
Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-26
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