Israel turns lights and heat off in Gaza

presstv.ir Press TV: Tell us about this situation. It seems that it is going from bad to worse with the situation in Gaza and now the sole power plant has been basically shut down. Tell me how that affects the day to day lives of the people of Gaza. al-Bassous: Life in Gaza has been difficult. Most people living in a serious situation. From 2006 the population in the Gaza strip has been living under constant blockade. Everything has been affected... now we talk about electricity, which we can have only 6 hours per day. The only power plant in the Gaza strip has been shut down. We used to have electricity 12 hours per day, now we only have six hours. Imagine how life could be where people only have 6 hours of electricity. So, most people are living in complete darkness. Hospitals will be affected - the Ministry of Health. Most aspects of our lives in the Gaza Strip have been badly affected. It’s not something that has happened for the first time, this is often happening in the Gaza Strip where the Israeli army closes all the crossing points. There is no fuel, there is no electricity. Most equipment is not allowed in the Gaza Strip. This has happened mainly since 2006. But for the past few hours the shortage has been in all aspects of life. The Israeli army has locked down the Gaza Strip completely for the past two days after a military escalation where the Israeli army was shooting at Palestinian militants and Palestinian civilians.

So, what’s happening now I think we will face most likely a catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, a humanitarian crisis if those crossing points will not be opened soon ,especially as we are talking about the shortage of everything, but mainly fuel and electricity and this can affect all people in the Gaza Strip.

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