Gaza sinks in complete darkness

Omar Ghraieb
Palestinian Telegraph

One can not predict when the crisis of electricity in the Gaza Strip will ever end, it began with the Israeli bombing of Gaza's only power plant only four years ago to render the damage of two generators out of three which operate the whole power plant, and on yesterday evening the halt of this generator was announced, not because of the Israeli bombardment, but because of preventing the needed fuel from entering to Gaza.

Yesterday, Gaza's only power plant stopped. The chairman of the energy and natural resources authority in Gaza, Kanaan Obeid, said that the power plant stopped working last night, because it wasnt provided with the required quantities of fuel to run the power plant, assuring that the deficit in the electric power supplied to the provinces of Gaza will come to 60 percent, warning of a major humanitarian disaster in Gaza's hospitals.

According to Obaid, the three sources of electricity in Gaza, are a line from Israel that produces "120" megawatts, and a line from Egypt which produces "16" MW, while Gaza's only power plant produces the amount of "60" MW (that's before the deficit).