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    Gaza Strip fuel shortage forces power shutdown

    GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian energy officials say fuel shortages have forced them to shutter the Gaza Strip's lone power plant, causing blackouts in the impoverished territory.

    Gaza's energy authority has until recently relied on fuel smuggled from Egypt to circumvent an Israeli blockade. But shortages in Egypt have halted the smuggling.

    Gaza's power plant director Walid Sayel said Wednesday he placed some blame for the crisis on infighting with the rival Palestinian government in the West Bank.

    Officials have called on the West Bank government to renew money transfers to the territory. This could buy fuel from the Egyptian government, sidestepping reliance on the black market.

    Health officials say hospitals are running out of fuel for emergency generators.

    THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

    GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian energy officials say fuel shortages have forced them to shut down the Gaza Strip's lone power plant, causing blackouts in the already impoverished territory.

    Gaza's energy authority has until recently relied on fuel smuggled from Egypt to circumvent an Israeli blockade. But shortages in Egypt have halted the smuggling.

    Gaza's power plant director Walid Saad Sayel said Wednesday he placed some blame for the crisis on infighting with the rival Palestinian government in the West Bank.

    Gaza relies on the West Bank to arrange the purchase of Israeli fuel, because Israel has no direct relations with the territory's militant Hamas government.

    Health officials say hospitals are running out of fuel for emergency generators.

     

    24 comments

    • Robert W  •  3 mths ago
      Hey hamas, guess you better call the mullas for oil. Why would the Israelis supply the people whose leaders vow their destruction with every breath they take.
      • reaper 3 mths ago
        well they do go back and forth
      • Salexpo 3 mths ago
        Because under Human Right laws, the occupier is responsible for the populations it oppresses. Simple concept the civilized world decided upon after Nuremberg trials...
      • marc 3 mths ago
        who's occupying Gaza? you are a bonafide dope.
    • Take that  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      Frigging idiots blow up the Egypt/Israel pipelines every other month and then blame the fuel shortage on the Zionist conspiracy. Of course, they did all vote for Hamas. How are those elected officials working out for you, Gazans?
    • RICHARD  •  Culver City, California  •  3 mths ago
      God #$%$ yahoo for their rollover ads!!! One can't even check out the news without having ads jump out at you and moving your reading section entirely out of the way!!! Time to look for another news source! Anyone know of a good news source without rollover ads, please let me know.
    • janice  •  New York, New York  •  3 mths ago
      recognize israel, stop spreading the hate, maybe you'll get gas.
      oh, i see, israel should provide fuel to the people who are committed to destroying it
      are you nuts?
      i wonder what would happen if it were the other way around.
    • Fortunatus  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 mths ago
      Mmm, let's see....Hamas vows the complete destruction of Israel...fires multiple rockets into Israel each day, but Israel still allows the PA to supply fuel to Gaza. But because of infighting between Hamas and the PA there is no fuel. In short: blame Israel.
      • reaper 3 mths ago
        Menachoth 43b-44a
        [A "prayer" or "benediction" to be said by a Jewish man every day: "Thank God for not making me a Gentile, a woman or a slave."]

        Do not save Goyim in danger of death.

        Show no mercy to the Goyim.

        Hilkkoth Akum X1

        A Jew is forbidden to drink from a glass of wine which a Gentile has touched, because the touch has made the wine unclean.
    • Jeffrey  •  3 mths ago
      You vote in terrorists who refuse to talk to Israel..hmmm, who to blame..who to blame.
      • reaper 3 mths ago
        Israel
      • Salexpo 3 mths ago
        Ah I did not know Israel wanted to talk. What about? the reservation borders?
      • marc 3 mths ago
        how about for openers their right to exist . . .
    • Natalie  •  3 mths ago
      Sounds like the ever feuding brothers in arms of Fatah/PA/Hamas are at their usual inept schtick, & holding the Palestinians hostage in the process .....
      I wonder where all of the cackling imbeciles are ....the posters who were jumping for joy when the lines were blown up and Israel(and Jordan) were cut off....?
    • jim  •  Newark, California  •  3 mths ago
      This is my shocked face. A Palestinian NOT blaming Israel and the US and Europe and blaming their own infighting? Incredible. There may be hope yet in this part of the world.

      I know the haters wont read this, but the difference between Israel and the Germans is the Jews were threatened AND exterminated, Israel has not threatened anyone nor exterminated anyone, unlike the Palenstinians, Iran, Syria and others.
      • reaper 3 mths ago
        #$%$ have you been smoking they threaten everyone on a daily basis.
      • max 3 mths ago
        no they blamed Israel, the article just doesn't mention it
    • Randy  •  Scottsville, Virginia  •  3 mths ago
      they have no fuel because they can't pay for it... they are beggars who rely on the generosity of others...
    • Get Some...  •  3 mths ago
      maybe Hamas should buy gas and not bullets
      • harold 3 mths ago
        @ Mr Happy Pants hamas is already full of crap......now go figure
    • harold  •  Greensboro, North Carolina  •  3 mths ago
      hmmmmm now would be good time for all of them to load up on there iranian boats and get the h-ll out of gaza
    • Bonsai  •  Providence, Rhode Island  •  3 mths ago
      work and pay your bills
    • Verve9  •  Boston, Massachusetts  •  3 mths ago
      yet their chief flies to Iran swears to destroy Israel and lives the life! What would that get him?
    • Jimmuh  •  3 mths ago
      Hamas is determined to make the palestinian's suffer. When will the palestinians learn they could have a good life if they got rid of their leaders and strived to get along with Israel instead of engaging in a holy war against Israel.
    • RICHARD  •  Culver City, California  •  3 mths ago
      Let the enemy suffer.................good for the USA and Israel!!!
    • resident  •  3 mths ago
      Sit in the dark under the burnt out light bulb and complain for life system. The broke arse animalistic retards can't figure out life with a death and rape "unbearable" take no responsibility and blame others for life system!!! Let the animals kill each other in the dark!! They have done nothing but breed for the last 60 years and they have reached critical mass. Time to burn the dead wood!!!
    • Loay Hejazi  •  London, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      fuel shortage in gaza had caused hundreds of serious accidents in the past...from food poisining caused by lack of refrigeration in summer...to safication in winter using low quality fuel to generate electricity...and with 170 new borns aday..its difficult to see how hospitals can function without power and clean water....
    • j  •  Elmhurst, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      Geeze, reading the comments... Do you guys not get that Palestinians aren't all a part of Hamas? And that there's INNOCENT CHILDREN that have to go through all the #$%$ Israel throws at them?Also, you may say 'they voted for them,' but people do desperate things in desperate times. The Germans let Adolf Hitler into power; are the Germans evil? Of course not. And let's just admit it. If it weren't for Hamas being a buffer zone, Palestinians would be getting slaughtered by the hundreds right now.
    • Salexpo  •  3 mths ago
      Gaza and West Bank are examples of Israel's own "final solution" for the pali people...Shameful.
    • Salexpo  •  3 mths ago
      After the Nuremberg trials, the whole world decided that an occupier would NOT be allowed to lock millions of people and impose its might by force on civilians to "teach them a lesson". That is called basic Human Rights. Israel ignoring this and using German like policies against these people...
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