GAZA, (PIC)-- For the second night running the Gaza Strip is plunged into darkness as the sole power station supplying electricity had to stop because the Israeli occupation has stopped supplying fuel necessary to run the station.
The disruption of the electricity supplies threatens the lives of new-born babies who need to be put in incubators, patients on ventilators or those dependent on dialysis machines as hospitals have very limited amounts of fuel to run their emergency generators.
The Energy Authority in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation refuses to supply it with the necessary fuel to run the main power station at the pretext of security issues at the supply terminal.
The Director General of the Energy Authority, Abdel-Karim Abdeen said: "We contacted the Israelis and asked them to resume the supply of fuel for the power station, but so far they have refused saying that there are security risks at the Nahal Oz crossing [where the fuel terminal supplying Gaza is sited]."
The Energy Authority announced on Saturday that the only power station in Gaza was going to be shut down which will affect 35% of the districts in the Gaza Strip and 55% of the Gaza City district.
The power station supplies most of the electricity used in the Gaza Strip, while in the southern Gaza Strip Egypt supplies about 20 Mega Watt of electricity, which the Energy Authority tries to ration to various parts of the Gaza Strip.
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