#GazaUnderAttack | Official: 3 Israel-Gaza power lines damaged

Ma’an News Agency | Aug 25, 2014 |  20:44 (MaanImages) Tweet GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Three Israeli power lines that provide the Gaza Strip with electricity were damaged Monday, the director of public relations in Gaza’s power plant said. Jamal al-Dardasawi told Ma’an that the power schedule went down from six hours to four hours […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Gaza running on 6 hours of electricity per day

Ma’an News Agency | updated) 17/08/2014 09:34   GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Most of Gaza is currently operating on six hours of electricity per day, the Strip’s power authority said in a statement Saturday. The Palestinian Energy and Natural Resources Authority will be able to continue supplying Gaza with that amount of power each day […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Digital front line: How Israel is shutting down Gaza’s Twitter voices

RT.com | Published time: July 30, 2014 13:35 Get short URL Palestinian rescue workers carry the body of a member of the Duheir family after removing it from under the rubble of their home which was destroyed in an Israeli air strike the previous day in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip (AFP Photo / […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Lack of fuel and electricity may cause humanitarian catastrophe at Gaza hospitals

  He noted that four hospitals have been without electricity for four days including Beit Hanoun hospital, Mohammed Al-Dura hospital, Kamal Adwan hospital, and Shifa hospital MEMO | July 25, 2014 A Palestinian Health Ministry official warned that the continued blackouts and acute shortage of fuel in the Gaza Strip are threatening to cause a […]

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PHOTOS | Gaza Strip plunged into darkness as fuel runs out

Ma’an News Agencies |  Nov 16, 2013 18:39 Fuel shortages have caused daily life in the Gaza Strip to grind slowly to a halt, as power plants and water pumps are forced to shut down, cutting off access to basic necessities for 1.7 million residents. The lack of diesel fuel is a result of the […]

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VIDEO | #GazaUnderSiege | Gaza Without Electricity

  Published on Nov 4, 2013 https://www.facebook.com/gazaundersiege Video Released By : Anzar A.   Related Special Topic | Egypts Siege on Gaza – Live Blog Special Topic | All Israeli Cease Fire Violations – Live Blog Special Topic | Gaza Under Attack – Photo Blog Special Topic | Slow Death of Gaza– Latest Report

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VIDEO | Gaza’s sole power plant shuts down due to fuel shortage

Published on Nov 4, 2013 The Energy authority in the Gaza strip say a shortage of fuel has halted the production of electricity across the blockaded coastal enclave. They say this is because the stock of fuel is zero. The situation results from Israel’s destruction of tunnels used for bringing fuel into Gaza. The Energy […]

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How I Stay Connected When The Electricity Is Off In Gaza ~ by @sallyidwedar

Reblogged from Sally Idwedar’s blog – Nov 4, 2013 Car batteries attached to converter unit I have been asked many times how I stay connected and post when the electricity is off in Gaza. Right now we are facing 12 hour blackouts and with Israeli aggression it is important we continue to blog and tweet so […]

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PHOTOS | Gaza Children sit-in to protest power cuts and banning entry of fuel by Israel – Nov 3, 2013

Nov 3, 2013 Photos by PalInfo.com   Related Electricity outage has serious impacts on Health: Minister of Health – Al Ray Agencies – Nov 4, 2013     Related Special Topic | Egypts Siege on Gaza – Live Blog Special Topic | All Israeli Cease Fire Violations – Live Blog Special Topic | Gaza Under […]

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Dearth of Egypt fuel threatens Gaza’s farmlands

Gaza’s ongoing electricity crisis has also worsened since the smuggling tunnels stopped operating, depriving the strip’s roughly 1.7 million inhabitants of badly-needed Egyptian fuel World Bulletin/News Desk | Oct 22, 2013 The tomatoes, cucumbers and eggplants that 52-year-old Gazan farmer Hassan Abd Rabo has been growing in his 9,000-square-meter farm are becoming drier, as yellow […]

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PHOTOS | Children of Gaza during candle light sit-in to protest electricity crisis and fuel scarcity – Sept 19 2013

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Public health sector in Gaza faces disaster under tightened siege

Intensive care medical units such as this one at the Al-Emarati Hospital in Gaza face significant cuts to their power and medical supplies Middle East Monitor | Sept 21, 2013 The Minister of Health in Gaza has urged the international community to put pressure on Israel and Egypt to lift the siege and allow medicines, […]

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Video | Power outages rage in Gaza

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Egyptian official is happy that Gaza electricity plant stopped working

Middle East Monitor | Sept 18, 2013 Former Egyptian Electricity Minister Osama Kamal has appeared happy on a local Egyptian television network, rejoicing: “We succeeded in closing the only electricity plant in Gaza.” Speaking to a talk show on Egyptian Al-Hayat TV, Kamal attributed the news to “the great [and] successful efforts of the Egyptian […]

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Collective Punishment: Israel may cut off electricity supply to West Bank

MEMO | June 21, 2013 Israel is studying proposals to cut the electricity supply to the occupied West Bank as a punitive measure for unpaid bills owing to the Israeli Electricity Company, Israeli TV channel 10 has revealed. The debts amount to around $230 million. Cutting off the supply is just one of the options […]

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