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<div><strong><a href="http://presstv.com/detail/227760.html" target="_blank">Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:7AM GMT Ashraf Shannon, Press TV, Gaza</a></strong></div>
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<div id="divLead">The Gaza Strip has been struggling with blackouts of up to 18 hours a day for several days.</div>
<p>Gaza&#8217;s sole power generating plant stopped working last Tuesday when Egypt blocked the flow of diesel fuel through underground tunnels.</p>
<p>The Israeli blockade and now Egypt&#8217;s refusal to allow fuel into the blockaded territory despite appeals by Palestinian officials is adding to the severity of the crisis.</p>
<p>As a result of the blackout, Gaza hospitals have been running on emergency generators which consume twenty thousand liters of fuel per day.</p>
<p>Fuel for the generators has almost depleted putting the life of patients on life support, premature children and those who require kidney dialysis at grave risk.</p>
<p>Long blackouts in the entire impoverished territory are badly affecting the provision of essential services, including water supply and sewage disposal.</p>
<p>Civil society organizations say the situation is catastrophic.</p>
<p>In recent days Egyptian officials have promised to supply Gaza&#8217;s only power plant with the badly needed fuel but up until now none of that fuel has been forthcoming.</p>
<p>Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza Strip have been struggling with long hours of power outages; they are now anxiously waiting to see how the international community would help to end this condition.</p>
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