Gaza's only power station closes

[Alan]

They might get it in without any problems if they removed the crates containing rockets and explosives from the shipment.

one man's rockets and explosives is another man's rocks or stones......

 

[lived666]

Can you explain to us how those arab countries would get the supplies into gaza. Let's say iran wanted to send gaza fuel for running the plant or whatever, how would they get it into gaza?

trucks or pipes is the usual method.
I don't get the question?
I will expect from you a million excuses why it can't be done via Egypt - but you and I know these are just lame excuses, if the arabs or persians as per your example wanted to solve any fuel crises in gaza they would have done so years ago.

Saudi Barbaria are a stone throw from gaza - an oil pipe line through Egypt could be built tomorrow - Egypt supplies both Jordan and Israel natural gas via pipe lines in the Sinai - the arab countries could assist gaza by building and paying for a gas turbine, lots of things can be done, the question remains is why don't they lift a finger.
The answer is as you know is that it suits the arab agenda not to lift a finger to help and rather point it at Israel.

 

[Chicken Boo]

you realize those get in through tunnels right. Not much need to try get it across the borders and struggle when you can ship it underground.

Kuk excuse

Then perhaps they should cut down on their rocket and bomb deliveries and send fuel instead?

 

[killadoob]

Then perhaps they should cut down on their rocket and bomb deliveries and send fuel instead?

Who the people running the plant or the entire gaza population?

 

[nivek]

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=258366

Gaza-based group says it won't accept deliveries made through Israel, proposes transfer through tunnels or Rafah crossing.

Hamas authorities on Saturday rejected an Egyptian proposal to bring in fuel via an Israeli crossing point to reactivate Gaza’s only power plant, which shut down four days ago when diesel supplies were disrupted.

“This is unacceptable because of our bitter experience with the Zionist occupation (Israel) and the way it controls the delivery of the shipments,” Ahmed Abu Al-Amreen of Gaza's Hamas-run Energy Authority, told reporters.

Abu Al-Amreen said that Hamas proposed bringing the Egyptian fuel via Rafah or direct underground pipelines.

Fuel shortages in Egypt had prompted smugglers to demand prices higher than Gazans were ready to pay, according to Ma'an.

AFP reported that Egyptian authorities had upped their crackdown on the smuggling of fuel to the Strip, which relies on its own power plant for up to a third of energy in the coastal enclave. That power plant experiences regular blackouts as fuel deliveries to Gaza are reliant on smugglers and are restricted by an Israeli sea blockade and land import restrictions.

Last week, energy authorities in Gaza announced that could only provide families with up to six hours of power at a time, according to Al Jazeera.

"Only half of the amount of fuel that entered in the previous weeks has been coming into Gaza for the past two weeks," the UN agency for humanitarian affairs, OCHA, said last Tuesday according to AFP.

The UN organization said that Israel's blockade on Gaza, which began in 2006 following the Hamas takeover of the Strip, forced smugglers and Gazans to develop a tunnel system through which to transfer fuel.

"Palestinians gradually developed tunnel infrastructure allowing the transfer of large quantities of fuel into Gaza, at a cheaper price, which resulted in an almost complete halt in the purchase from Israel," the OCHA said according to AFP.

Gaza is seeking to join an interstate energy grid that includes seven other Arab countries, but has said that the deal rests upon approval from the PLO.

Self created crisis

 

[za1]

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=258366




Self created crisis

their whole situation is self created

 

[Fudzy]

Would be interesting to read something from a Palestinian based news source, I often find the stories on JPost to be biased and one-sided, understandably so.

 

[schumi]

Would be interesting to read something from a Palestinian based news source, I often find the stories on JPost to be biased and one-sided, understandably so.

Suspect it will be equally "biased and one-sided"

 

[killadoob]

Suspect it will be equally "biased and one-sided"

LOL yup. So one wonders where do you read unbiased reports. hmmm one side will always call bias because the issue is not clear.

 

[Fudzy]

Suspect it will be equally "biased and one-sided"

Well the 'truth' lies inbetween them somewhere

 

[schumi]

That's international politics we can assume and draw conclusions, but fact is, there is always more than meets the eye, and if a country wants to keep a secret, it will always remain a secret.