Solar power project in Gaza schools

[ PIC 03/10/2013 – 01:01 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Gaza has inaugurated, in collaboration with Islamic Relief, the first solar power project to generate electricity in Gaza schools in a new challenge to the Gaza siege. Solar energy equipment has been already installed, at Ihsan School in Khan […]

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Israel Denies Electricity to Palestinians: Orders Removal of EU-funded Solar Cells

Global Research, March 19, 2013 AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) ordered the removal of solar cell panels providing a Palestinian community east of Yatta town in Al-Khalil with electric power. Local sources reported that the occupation civil administration handed on Friday notices to the residents of Umm Al-Kharouba area near Yatta stating that […]

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Israel orders removal of EU-funded solar cells in Al-Khalil

[ PIC 16/03/2013 – 02:09 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) ordered the removal of solar cell panels providing a Palestinian community east of Yatta town in Al-Khalil with electric power. Local sources reported that the occupation civil administration handed on Friday notices to the residents of Umm Al-Kharouba area near Yatta […]

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Israel orders demolition of homes, solar panel near Hebron

Maan News Agency | June 19, 2012   HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities handed demolition orders on Monday for four homes and a solar panel in a south Hebron village, official media said. Popular committee spokesman Rateb Jabour to PA news agency Wafa that the orders were given to four members of the Abu Jundiya […]

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Action Alert ▶ Help save solar & wind power in the West Bank Palestine – video

The Only Democracy | March 20, 2012   Israel is threatening to demolish solar and wind power systems in rural communities in the West Bank. These systems are the only source of energy for more than 500 people. Located in area C under full Israeli control, these remote shepherd communities have no other source of […]

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Comet-ME Call to Action ▶ Israel to destroy Solar & Wind Power Systems – Video

Video by CometMiddleEast on Mar 12, 2012 Israel is threatening to demolish solar and wind power systems in six rural communities in the West Bank. More than 500 people depend exclusively on these systems for light, refrigeration, communication and agriculture.   Action Alert Tell Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, and put an end to the […]

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Gaza inventor defies power outage with home-made electric system

A handicapped man in Gaza has become more mobile thanks to his new wheelchair created by Mahmoud Shaheen. (Al Arabiya)  By Yusuf Sadek  |Arabiya Gaza | March 21, 2012 Power outage is one of the main problems facing residents of Gaza since Israel bombed the power generators that provide the strip with electricity five years […]

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Palestinians prepare to lose the solar panels that provide a lifeline

Israel is planning to demolish ‘illegal’ solar panels that are the only source of electricity for Palestinians in West Bank villages Phoebe Greenwood in Tel Aviv| guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 14 March 2012 A Palestinian man looks at a solar panel in the southern West Bank village of Imneizil. Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images Two large solar panels […]

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Connecting the West Bank to solar energy: A day at the Abu Kbeta family compound

Tomer Weinstein on March 8, 2012  | Mondoweiss (Photo: Tomer Weinstein) It was early morning Wednesday, exactly at 6:54am when I boarded the train from Tel-Aviv to Beit Shemesh. I was on my way to meet Noam, co-founder of Comet-ME (Community Electricity and Technology Middle East), one of only a handful of Israeli NGOs operating […]

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Vindictive closure of renewable energy projects in West Bank

Israel set to demolish EU-funded renewables projects By Arthur Neslen, EurActiv 24.02.12 Six EU-funded wind and solar energy projects which provide electricity for 600 West Bank Palestinians have been put on a ‘demolition list’ by Israel, allegedly in response to an EU heads of mission report which called for laws to prevent the financing of […]

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If Israel would be able to “turn off” the sun above Palestine, It would – in pictures

Related: Cuts cost Lives! Electricity | Water | Communication If Israel would be able to “turn off” the sun above Palestine, It would. It can’t so it demolishes the solar panels which provide electricity for a whole village and facilities, including health care and the village’s waterpump. One, of the many ways to make Palestinians […]

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