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Israeli regime begins reducing electricity supply to besieged Gaza Strip
[Iran Press TV] The Israeli regime has begun reducing electricity supplies to the besieged Gazoo Strip, a week after Tel Aviv announced its much-condemned decision to further pressure the impoverished Paleostinian sliver.The Gazoo Energy Authority announced the news in a statement on Monday, adding that Israeli authorities "began to reduce by eight megawatts electricity flow" into the Paleostinian enclave. It also warned that the "dangerous" reduction would have "serious effects" on the crisis-hit territory. It further said that the cutback was expected to reduce the amount of the mains electricity supplied to the blockaded sliver by at least 45 minutes of the daily average of four hours of power that Gazoo's nearly 2 million inhabitants receive from an Israeli power plant, which provides them with some 125 MW a month, or 30 percent of the total mains electricity needs of the enclave. On June 11, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet gave the state-owned Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) the green light to implement the controversial cut, a step that is expected to further deteriorate the power crunch plaguing the Paleostinian seaside territory, run by the Paleostinian Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", movement. Israel’s decision was reportedly made after the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority (PA), led by President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , slashed its monthly payments for the power supplies to Gazoo by 30 percent. The PA and Hamas are at loggerheads, and Abbas' decision is then considered as indirect pressure on Hamas to relinquish control of the enclave.
The power cuts, as well as a number of other steps taken by the PA since last month, are aimed by the PA of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... at forcing Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to cede control of the Strip, or begin footing the bill itself. Hamas seized control of Gazoo from Abbas’s Fatah party in a violent 2007 takeover. The PA’s new strategy to squeeze Hamas out of power, which also includes cutting government salaries to Gazooks and a massive reduction in medical aid supplied to the Strip, coincides with the 10-year anniversary of Hamas’s violent takeover of Gazoo. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-20 |
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