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| Power outage across Gaza as fuel runs out, says Hamas |
| 2013-11-02 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A shortage of fuel halted the production of electricity across the Gazoo Strip on Friday, said the energy authority of the Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which controls the Paleostinian enclave. "We have completely stopped the operation of [Gazoo's sole] power plant this morning at 6:00 am [4:00 GMT] because we don't have a single liters of fuel," Fathi el-Sheikh Khalil, the authority's deputy chairman, told AFP. An AFP correspondent in the Gazoo Strip said the electricity supply had been cut off across most of the territory on Friday morning. Khalil blamed the power outage on Israel's destruction of tunnels used for bringing fuel to Gazoo and accused the Western-backed Paleostinian Authority of charging Hamas too much for its fuel. "Less than 50 percent of the needs of the Gazoo Strip are currently covered by electricity from Israel [and] we can no longer get Egyptian fuel due to the destruction of tunnels from Egypt," he said. "We tried to get fuel from Israel via the Paleostinian Authority, but it has imposed prohibitive taxes." The Gazoo plant supplies about a third of the territory's electricity needs. "The plant will remain shut until fuel supplies resume from Egypt through the tunnels or the Rafah border crossing, or from Israel if the Paleostinian Authority agrees not to impose the heavy taxes," said Khalil. In September, the Gazoo energy authority warned of an impending shortage of fuel and called on Egypt to resume deliveries to the strip. Relations between Cairo and Hamas have deteriorated since the Egyptian army ousted Islamist president Mohammed Mursi in July. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 We'll trade you fuel for pounds of cement. good deal |
| Posted by: Mikey Hunt 2013-11-02 23:39 |
| #4 "We had to divert electricity from the schools and hospitals to the machine shops. Those rockets aren't gonna build themselves, ya know?" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-11-02 09:56 |
| #3 Let them burn methane from their sewage lagoons. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-11-02 02:53 |
| #2 Hamas should also reduce their oxygen footprint. |
| Posted by: Bunyip 2013-11-02 01:38 |
| #1 Reducing their carbon footprint; I'm cool with it. |
| Posted by: Raj 2013-11-02 00:24 |