Gaza faces severe crisis amid power plant shutdown

‘The Gaza Strip of about 2 million Palestinians is to face a severe energy crisis starting from Sunday as the besieged enclave’s sole power plant is about to shut down amid a lack of funds to buy fuel.
The plant’s closure could shut down the Gaza desalination plant, which produces clean and potable water in the territory where some 96% of water is undrinkable.
Gaza authorities depend on outside donations to operate the facility. A similar crisis threatened the power plant during the winter, but fuel and funds provided by Turkey and Qatar prevented it.
Demand for power in Gaza is about 450 to 500 megawatts per day, but it often gets less than half of that, where about 27 megawatts is imported from Egypt and 125 megawatts from Israel.’
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