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UN warns of Gaza's 'total collapse' amid power crisis
...a formerly good idea gone bad... has warned that longer power cuts threaten a "total collapse" of basic services in Gazoo, with residents in the beseiged Paleostinian territory being held hostage to political infighting. Gazooks currently receive three to four hours of mains electricity a day, delivered from the territory's own power station and others in Israel and Egypt.
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... cut electricity funding by his West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority. The move was widely seen as an attempt by Abbas to step up pressure on the rival Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement, which runs Gazoo. The UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied territories, Robert Piper, warned the additional power cuts would have a disastrous effect. "A further increase in the length of blackouts is likely to lead to a total collapse of basic services, including critical functions in the health, water and sanitation sectors," Piper said in a statement. "The people in Gazoo should not be held hostage to this long-standing internal Paleostinian dispute," he said. Israeli and global NGOs, including A joint statement of 16 groups, among them Israel's B'Tselem, Peace Now and Rabbis for Human Rights, said they have asked Israel's attorney general to intervene. They said further cuts would contravene a 2008 Israeli supreme court ruling that years of Israeli control over the strip had created near-total dependence on power supply from Israel and it must therefore continue to provide sufficient electricity to meet humanitarian needs.
Posted by: Fred 2017-06-15 |
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