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UN warns of Gaza's 'total collapse' amid power crisis
2017-06-15
Simply dreadful. But then the Gazans voted for them fair and square, and as Mencken said, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
[Al Jazeera] The United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
 has warned that longer power cuts threaten a "total collapse" of basic services in Gazoo, with residents in the beseiged Paleostinian territory being held hostage to political infighting.

Gazooks currently receive three to four hours of mains electricity a day, delivered from the territory's own power station and others in Israel and Egypt.
Not Egypt. They've been having problems.
Israel decided on Sunday to reduce the amount of electricity it supplies to Gazoo by between 45 and 60 minutes a day after Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
 cut electricity funding by his West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority.

The move was widely seen as an attempt by Abbas to step up pressure on the rival Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement, which runs Gazoo.

The UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied territories, Robert Piper, warned the additional power cuts would have a disastrous effect.

"A further increase in the length of blackouts is likely to lead to a total collapse of basic services, including critical functions in the health, water and sanitation sectors," Piper said in a statement.

"The people in Gazoo should not be held hostage to this long-standing internal Paleostinian dispute," he said.

Israeli and global NGOs, including Amnesia Amnesty International, joined the world body in condemning the longer hours of blackout.

A joint statement of 16 groups, among them Israel's B'Tselem, Peace Now and Rabbis for Human Rights, said they have asked Israel's attorney general to intervene.

They said further cuts would contravene a 2008 Israeli supreme court ruling that years of Israeli control over the strip had created near-total dependence on power supply from Israel and it must therefore continue to provide sufficient electricity to meet humanitarian needs.
When they don't pay their bills?
Posted by:Fred

#8  It's not clear to me how "total collapse" in Gaza would differ from business as usual.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-06-15 19:33  

#7  so?
Posted by: 3dc   2017-06-15 18:44  

#6  #5 I find it hard to believe they have humanitarian services. Posted by: DarthVader

Does Rescue diggers when a terror tunnel collapses count?
Posted by: Frank G   2017-06-15 12:36  

#5  I find it hard to believe they have humanitarian services.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-06-15 10:52  

#4  Electricity for [unfired] Rockets and Missiles.

but then that makes too much sense for the Useless Nitwits.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-06-15 09:41  

#3  New York, LA, et al. Take notes. This may well be in your future.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-06-15 09:30  

#2  I'm waiting for UN collapse.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-06-15 06:44  

#1  Not my problem. You use your money for bombs. Besides, you posers act like you want a state but you are nothing but a bunch of terrors. Get the hell out of Israel. Nothing here belongs to you. At all.
Posted by: newc   2017-06-15 01:34  

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