Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the cabinet’s decision to reduce Gaza’s power supply is the result of an internal Palestinian political rivalry, and that Israel is not seeking to escalate tensions with the Islamist rulers of the Strip.
“Hamas is demanding that the PA pay for its electricity, and the PA is refusing to pay. This is an internal Palestinian debate,” he says at an event in Be’er Ya’akov.
“I want to make clear that Israel has no interest in escalation, and any other interpretation is incorrect,” he says. “But we do have an interest in security and our policies on security are clear and have not changed.”
On Sunday, the cabinet decided to cut the amount of power it supplies to the Gaza Strip at the behest of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who is seeking to ramp up pressure on Hamas, his Fatah party’s bitter rival.
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