{"id":2854,"date":"2018-10-10T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T21:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2019-05-19T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T03:04:21","slug":"pa-blocking-fuel-to-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2018\/10\/pa-blocking-fuel-to-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"PA blocking fuel to Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is an electricity crisis in Gaza. Essential services\u00a0rely heavily on back-up generators<\/a>\u00a0but these require fuel.<\/p>\n

The UN\u00a0appealed for donors to fund US$6.5m to provide 7.7m litres of emergency fuel<\/a>\u00a0for 2018.<\/p>\n

However, funding is not the real barrier to solving the crisis. After all,\u00a0Hamas invests tens of millions of dollars into terror tunnels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A recent article has highlighted what is the major problem – Palestinian politics.<\/p>\n

Essam Aldalis, deputy head of Hamas\u2019s \u201cPolitical Department,\u201d said that Qatar has paid for the required fuel and that \u201cIsrael agreed to the pumping of the fuel to the power plant in the Gaza Strip<\/a>,\u201d.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0real problem<\/a>, according to Hamas is that \u201cThe Palestinian Authority threatened the transportation company workers and the employees of the electricity company that they would be held accountable if they received the fuel and operated the power plant for more than four hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aldalis also addressed the residents of Gaza, asking \u201cSo who is besieging you, the people of Gaza?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

It is disappointing that mainstream NZ news, some commentators, and elected officials who have condemned Israel for maintaining strong borders and defending against the\u00a0Gaza riots<\/a>\u00a0are all silent when the Palestinian Authority is actually besieging Gaza.<\/p>\n

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There is an electricity crisis in Gaza. Essential services\u00a0rely heavily on back-up generators\u00a0but these require fuel. The UN\u00a0appealed for donors to fund US$6.5m to provide 7.7m litres of emergency fuel\u00a0for 2018. However, funding is not the real barrier to solving the crisis. After all,\u00a0Hamas invests tens of millions of dollars into terror tunnels. A recent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4304,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions\/4304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}