Deja Vu All Over Again: Gaza Plunged Into Darkness
Lying sack of shit animals, man…NO! Wait! Wait!
Shoot the guys who deliver gas to us, then complain that they won’t deliver gas to us, then shut down the power plant and fuck ourselves!
yeah! Yeah! That’s it! Allahu Snackbar!
Gaza officials said Saturday that they switched off all three turbines that had been generating electricity for hundreds of thousands of Gazans. Energy official Kaanan Obeid said Israel hadn’t provided enough diesel to run the power plant.
Ninety percent of Gaza City was plunged in darkness Saturday night, Obeid said.
Israel has limited its rations of fuel and other supplies to Gaza in an attempt to pressure terrorists to stop firing rockets at the western Negev.
An IDF spokesman said Saturday that Israel didn’t deliver as much fuel as planned to Gaza this week because Palestinian terrorists attacked the crossing used to deliver it. He said he did not know when fuel supplies to the power plant would resume.
The plant has shut down before, citing fuel shortages, but Israel delivered fuel the following day.
It was not immediately clear if the privately owned power station had actually run out of fuel Saturday or whether it was shut down to pressure Israel to deliver fuel.
Government spokesman David Baker denied Israel was to blame for the blackout.
“Israel continues to supply fuel and vital humanitarian goods to Gaza,” Baker said. “There is no logical reason for this fuel plant to be shut down. This is another example of Hamas orchestrating an artificial crisis for its own political aims and once again Hamas is showing a complete disregard for the welfare of the Palestinian people.”
Earlier Saturday, Egyptian authorities ordered a three-day opening of the Rafah border crossing on Saturday to allow Palestinians to cross into Egypt from the Gaza Strip for medical treatment, said a security official at the terminal.
Palestinians in urgent need of surgery as well as cancer and heart patients will be given priority to cross into Egypt, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
On Friday, Hamas leader in exile Khaled Mashaal urged Egypt to open Rafah crossing if Israel rejected its truce proposal, Hamas and other Palestinian factions endorsed the proposal in principle in late April.
Hamas is trying to negotiate a new arrangement for the border crossings with Israel and Egypt, as part of a wider package that would also include a Gaza-Israel cease-fire and a prisoner swap.
Speaking in Damascus, Mashaal said that Egypt should open the terminal even if Israel rejects the truce.
“If Israel rejects this Egyptian effort,” Mashaal said, “I demand Egypt and Arab countries to immediately take the unilateral initiative to lift the siege and open the Rafah crossing.”
“No Arab has an excuse not to do that,” he said, vowing to take “creative” measures.
(JP)
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Gaza plunged into darkness. How can that happen? Gaza is always in darkness with their failed society. They don’t need light bulbs to help see in the dark, they need leadership that cares for their people. Leadership that wants their children to grow up in a peaceful area of the Middle East and thirve in business. What they certainly don’t need is the failed and criminal course that they have taken the last 40 odd years.
May 10th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
A Palestinian state?!! Let get something straight for now! Let say (God Forbid!) that Egypt, Jordan, and Syria fought a war against Israel and won! Do you think that for one minute they would grant a Palestine state? No, they would not! Do you really want to know why they won’t? The Gaza strip use to belong to Egypt! The West Bank use to belong to Jordan! And the Golan Heights use to belong to Syria! And what about Israel itself? Most likely to be carved up by Victors! So the next time some idiot far left loon comes up to you about Palestine State just remind that idiot about who’s territories they originally belong too!!!
May 11th, 2008 at 5:51 am