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Thursday, January 29, 2015
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Thursday, January 29, 2015
Israel to reduce electricity to Palestinians
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsrael’s state-run electricity company is to reduce energy supplies to Palestinians in the West Bank because of a debt of more than $450 million, an official says.
The move comes at a time of diplomatic tensions, weeks after Israel froze the Palestinian Authority’s tax revenues in retaliation for joining the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“Due to a mounting debt worth nearly 1.8 billion shekels ($459 million), we have decided that as of today, electrical supply (to the West Bank) will be cut” for an hour each morning and another hour at night, an Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) official says.
— AFP
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