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Get email notification for articles from Amira Hass Follow May. 31, 2021 12:20 PM Ten days after the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, electricity supplies in the Gaza Strip remained limited, as they were during the week and a half of the military hostilities themselves. As of Sunday evening, continuous power was only available for three to four hours a day, although by Monday, it was available for stretches of six hours, followed by 12 hours without electricity. That’s compared to the eight-hour stretches that power was available before the fighting erupted. As of the beginning of the week, the Strip was receiving a combined 116 megawatts of electric power a day from Israel and the local Palestinian power station, in contrast to about 190 megawatts before the war – which was still far outstripped by the 500 megawatts in local demand. The drastic reduction in power supplies to Gaza is due primarily to an Israeli government decision to halt the delivery of f ....