Gaza Power Plants totally off

Friday November 14, 2008 00:40 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

The Popular Committee Against the Siege, headed by Legislator Jamal El Khodary, stated that all power generators at the Gaza Power Plant stopped operating due to the lack of industrial fuel as the Israeli occupation barred fuel supplies from entering Gaza ten days ago.

On Thursday evening, at 6:30, the Committee sounded sirens in different parts of the Gaza Strip to announce that the power plant is not functioning anymore.  

Al Khodary stated in a press conference in Gaza that since the Power Plant is not functioning, hospitals and medical centers would not be able to function. Other basic services, including drinking water wells, will also be out of order.  

The power shortage would also disrupt critical water and sanitation services, this endangering the health and life of the residents.

Several bakeries had to shut down and the rest of the bakeries will shut down soon, he added.

The independent legislator added that the Israeli occupation sealed all industrial crossings ten days ago and ignored all calls to keep them opened as their continued closure will cause further humanitarian disasters in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip.

He called on the international community and the Arab world to intervene in order to stop the illegal Israeli measures that affect the lives of 1.5 million residents.

Responding to a call from the Committee, hundreds of residents took off to the street in the Gaza Strip in protest to the illegal Israeli measures and expressed their anger and rejection to the cutting of fuel supplies.

The residents chanted for freedom and held banners rejecting the siege and demanding an end to it.

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