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Palestinian demonstrators chant slogans against Hamas in the Gaza Strip during a protest against the territory's chronic power outages and difficult living conditions along the streets of Khan Younis, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (AP Photo)
July 31, 2023, 2:21 pm
Thousands take to streets in Gaza in rare public protests against Hamas
Demonstrators rail against terror group that rules impoverished Strip to complain about chronic power outages and difficult living conditions
By Agencies
A Palestinian girl walks past a stack of discarded batteries slated for recycling in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 14, 2022. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
March 9, 2022, 8:39 am
Mounds of discarded batteries threaten Gaza health, environment
Power cells are an essential source of energy for the Palestinian enclave, where electricity supply is sparse and infrastructure has decayed
By Agencies
A Palestinian man cuts wood using a chainsaw in a traditional charcoal production site in the town of Jabaliya, Northern Gaza Strip, January 7, 2021.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
January 15, 2021, 9:44 am
With power crisis, out-of-work woodcutters see opportunity in Gaza
Tight Israeli-Egyptian blockade, weak ties with PA have resulted in unreliable power, driving up demand for wood in winter
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: An aerial view of the solar field at Kibbutz Ketura, which provides one-third of the daytime electricity for the city of Eilat. (Courtesy)
June 26, 2018, 11:08 pm
Israel planning to ease Gaza power crisis by building new solar field — report
Unilateral measure, said to be pitched to US envoys, would be funded by private donors — but farm would have to be at least 15 times bigger than country’s current largest
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Palestinian children fill jerrycans with drinking water from public taps in the southern Gaza Strip, June 11, 2017. (AFP/SAID KHATIB)
June 25, 2018, 10:34 pm
Israel reportedly agrees to set up seaport for Gaza in Cyprus
Hadashot news says defense minister proposed plan to Cypriot president; conditioned it on release of Israeli captives, soldiers’ bodies held by Hamas
By Stuart Winer
Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, center, chants slogans with protesters during a visit to the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
June 22, 2018, 1:57 pm
Economic collapse or war: Hamas’s cynical, desperate bid to pressure Israel, PA
The terror group is holding its subjects in Gaza hostage in a dangerous gambit to improve their lot while retaining its military strength
By Avi Issacharoff
Leah Solomon
April 2, 2018, 9:22 am
Leah Solomon
If you were Gazan, what would you do?
If I had no clean water, not enough electricity, no prospect of a job? I hope I’d have the courage to protest
An employee of the Palestinian health ministry checks the Beit Hanoun hospital in the northern Gaza Strip after it stopped its services on January 29, 2018, after it ran out of fuel. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
February 1, 2018, 9:29 am
Israel to allow generators into Gaza to ease power crisis — report
At least seven hospitals in the strip have closed due to lack of fuel and officials warn the enclave is on the verge of collapse
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An injured Palestinian man arrives at a hospital to receive treatment following an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on December 8, 2017 .(AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)
January 29, 2018, 4:52 pm
Hospital in Gaza freezes services after fuel runs out
Beit Hanoun hospital says patients’ lives at risk after it suspends services because it can’t run generators during the many hours of no electricity
By Dov Lieber
A Palestinian family eats dinner by candlelight at their makeshift home in the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, during a power outage June 11, 2017. (AFP/Said Khatib)
July 13, 2017, 3:07 pm
Gazans said facing daylong power cuts as plant shuts down
Hamas-run enclave’s electricity company says supplies at unprecedented low
By AP and ToI Staff
Palestinians walk on a dark street during a power outage in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, June 11, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
June 15, 2017, 7:35 pm
US ‘concerned’ about Gaza crisis but says Hamas responsible
State Department underscores need of ‘international support’ for Strip’s recovery and humanitarian assistance to Palestinians
By ToI Staff
Palestinians walk on a street at the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City during a power outage on June 11, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
June 14, 2017, 5:29 pm
UN says Gazans being held hostage to Palestinian feud
Humanitarian coordinator warns further electricity cuts will bring Strip to ‘catastrophe’ and a ‘total collapse of basic services’
By ToI Staff and AFP
A silhouette of a Palestinian boy in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on April 19, 2017. The Gaza Strip's only functioning power plant was out of action. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
May 31, 2017, 2:45 pm
Energy minister refuses to cut further electricity to Gaza
As Hamas and PA wage power struggle, Yuval Steinitz says Israel should not be drawn into internal Palestinian problems
By Agencies
US President Donald Trump meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on May 3, 2017 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
May 3, 2017, 2:12 pm
Abbas to Trump: ‘It’s about time for Israel to end its occupation’
Palestinian leader says US president brings ‘hope’ for peace as Trump commits to do ‘whatever necessary’; Trump urges end to incitement, says he wants Abbas to sign final agreement with Israel
By Tamar Pileggi
Members of Hamas's military wing the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigade attending a memorial in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on January 31, 2017. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)
March 13, 2017, 9:59 pm
Open up Gaza or it will explode, Hamas threatens Israel
Senior official says residents of the Strip can no longer tolerate living without an airport or seaport
By Dov Lieber
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