Gaza: The Gaza Strip’s only power plant is running out of fuel and will stop operation within days, a Palestinian spokesman warned on Monday.
“Israel is preventing the entry of fuel to the power plant in Gaza,” Mohammad Thabet from the Electricity Distribution Company of Gaza, told a press conference in Gaza City.
The spokesman called for piling pressure on Israel to reopen the Kerem Shalom crossing, Gaza’s only functional commercial crossing, to allow the entry of fuel into the Palestinian territory.
“The available fuel is sufficient to operate the power plant for only two or three days,” Thabet said.
Gaza will run out of fuel to run its power station in two days, according to officials who warned it will see homes and hospitals plunged into darkness after the most intense bouts of fighting since the 2014 war. Households across much of the tiny blockaded strip are already only receiving four hours of power a day because of the closure of the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel through which Gaza receives its fuel. The fighting has also damaged.