Gaza's power plant shuts down as Zionist entity blocks fuel and the West Bank

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Gaza's power plant shuts down as Zionist entity blocks fuel and the West Bank under assassination



A humanitarian crisis is underway as the Gaza Strip's only power plant began to shut down on Sunday, and the tiny coastal territory entered its third full day without shipments of vital food and fuel supplies due to Zionist entity's punitive sanctions.

The Gaza Strip's power plant will shut down by 8:00pm on Sunday because it no longer has the fuel needed to keep running. One of the plant's two electricity-generating turbines had already shut down by noon.


This will drastically reduce output to 25 or 30 megawatts, down from the 65 megawatts the plant produces under normal conditions. By Sunday evening the plant will shut down completely, leaving large swaths of the Gaza Strip in darkness.

After months of increasingly harsh sanctions, Zionist entity imposed a total closure on the Strip's border crossings, even preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid. The Zionist government says the closure is punishment for an ongoing barrage of Palestinian homemade projectiles fired from the Gaza Strip.


180 fuel stations have shut down after Gaza residents to buy gas for cooking.

A Palestinian economist Hasan Abu Ramadan said the current humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip will be deepened by the blockade on fuel and food supplies. He warned that Gaza Strip could go from a situation of deep poverty to all out famine, disease, and malnutrition.


Abu Ramadan said that more than 80% of the Strip's 1.5 million residents have been surviving with the help of food aid from international organizations such as UNRWA for Palestinian refugees.


Most international actors in the region believe there already is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, including the UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator, the Undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs John Holmes, who said at a press conference at UNHQ in New York on Friday that "This kind of action against the people in Gaza cannot be justified, even by those rocket attacks".


UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon expressed particular concern, in a statement issued later on Friday through his spokesperson, about the "decision by Zionist enitity to close the crossing points in between Gaza and Zionist enitity used for the delivery of humanitarian assistance. Such action cuts off the population from much-needed fuel supplies used to pump water and generate electricity to homes and hospitals".


The UN Human Rights Council's Special Reporter on the situation of human rights in the occupied territories, John Dugard, also issued a much sharper statement on Friday, saying that Zionist enitity must have foreseen the loss of life and injury to many nearby civilians when it targeted the Ministry of Interior building in Gaza City.


This, and the killings of other Palestinians during the week, plus the closures, "raise very serious questions about Zionist entity's respect for international law and its Commitment to the peace process", Dugard said. He said it violates the strict prohibition on collective punishment contained in the Fourth Geneva Convention, and one of the basic principles of international humanitarian law: that military action must distinguish between military targets and civilian targets.



Zionist forces assassinated one Al Quds men



Zionist forces killed one Palestinian during an incursion in the Zhinnaba neighborhood east of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, witnesses said.

The victim was a twenty-five-year-old member of the armed wing of Islamic Jiha named Ibrahim Al-Basha.


More than 15 Zionist military vehicles invaded the area and surrounded Al-Basha’s house. The soldiers used a public address system to call on residents to quit the area. They then called on Al-Basha to surrender. He refused, opening fire on the Zionist soldiers, injuring one in the shoulder. The solders returned fire, killing Al-Basha.


Witnesses said the soldiers used a robot to drag Al-Basha from his house after he was shot before they were able to approach him for fear that he was wearing explosives.

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