Raed Fattouh, an official of the Commission coordinate the entry of goods from Israel, told AFP that “the fuel tanks on each of them about 45 thousand liters went to the station via the Kerem Shalom crossing on Wednesday morning while waiting for a number of tanks on the Palestinian side to fill the fuel, respectively.”

“He’s expected entry of about 430 thousand liters of industrial fuel to the power plant today.”

A spokesman for the Hamas government in Gaza announced Tuesday that it has been agreed with the Palestinian government headed by Salam Fayyad, to supply fuel for the power station suspended from work in Gaza because of lack of fuel, starting from Wednesday.

They stopped only power plant in Gaza, which provides a third of the sector, to work the middle of February to the lack of fuel, including fuel smuggled from Egypt through the tunnels deployed on the border between Gaza and Egypt chelsea vs benfica live stream. Resumed Israel on Wednesday to pump fuel for the power station in Gaza to end the crisis electricity in the growing sector for more than a month.

An official of the Commission coordinate the entry of goods from Israel, Raed Fattouh, the fuel tanks, each containing about 45 thousand liters of fuel went to the station via the Kerem Shalom crossing, while waiting for a number of tanks on the Palestinian side to fill the fuel, respectively.

Fattouh added that he expected entry of about 430 thousand liters of industrial fuel to the power plant today.

A spokesman for the Hamas government, announced Tuesday that he agreed with the Palestinian government headed by Salam Fayyad, to supply fuel for the power station suspended from work in the sector due to lack of fuel, starting from Wednesday.

It is noteworthy that the only power plant in Gaza, which provides a third of the sector, stopped working mid-February for lack of fuel, including fuel smuggled through tunnels from Egypt deployed on the border between Gaza and Egypt. Israeli occupation authorities began Wednesday morning to pump large quantities of industrial diesel to Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing in northern Gaza directed only to the power plant to re-run after a break of more than a month because of lack of fuel.

The head of the Coordinating Committee for the introduction of goods into the Gaza Strip, Raed Fattouh, “It was introduced first truck of diesel fuel to the Gaza Strip through the crossing on their way to the power station in Gaza City anticipated the introduction of 450 thousand liters of diesel fuel today.”

The Gaza government reached an agreement with the Ramallah government sponsored by Egypt and serving to supply fuel for the power station in Gaza starting on Wednesday.

The government spokesman Taher al-Nunu, the agreement provides for the supply of the General Authority for Petroleum 500 thousand liters per day for the power plant, while the conversion price of Proceeds company Gaza Electricity Distribution, noting that the electricity distribution company in the Gaza Strip has transferred 2 million shekels (U.S. dollar equals 7.3 NIS) for the implementation of this Agreement.

Reference is made to the fuel crisis will continue for cars in the Gaza Strip as the text of the agreement on the supply of diesel fuel only to the power plant sector.

The Gaza Strip suffers more than a month of a crisis in the fuel and electricity, by fuel shortages which impact on all aspects of life and vital sectors of the population, other than stop only power plant and nutritious for the sector to work, to run out of its reserves of fuel.

On the other hand, said Chairman of the Coordination Committee of the introduction of goods that the occupation will go through the crossing about 220 trucks loaded with aid, as well as of goods sectors of the commercial, agricultural and transport sector.

He said that among the trucks, 11 trucks chelsea vs benfica live stream loaded with cement and constructed the building, 40 trucks in favor of projects and relief agency, and three trucks loaded with supplies and equipment for the water authority, pointing out that it will pump limited quantities of gas Thaoalent the Palestinian government, the article that it had agreed with the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah on the supply of fuel for the power station in the Gaza Strip, while confirming that they Qatar Fuel supplies to the beleaguered sector to solve the power outage.

He said government spokesman Taher Nunu article – in a press conference held in Gaza – that under the agreement will be the Palestinian General Petroleum Corporation to provide the station with 500 thousand liter with effect from tomorrow, Wednesday, to be paid for collections of Gaza Electricity Distribution Company.

He added that the electricity distribution company in Gaza turned two million shekels in advance of the implementation of this agreement, and expressed the hope that “the agreement would be implemented from the brothers in Ramallah on time to end electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip.”
On the other hand, stressed his government Nono or agreement with the Egyptian officials “in relation to the strategic steps to resolve the electricity crisis, and set a timetable for the three stages.”

He pointed out that Nono is the first phase, “an effort to increase power of 17-22 MW, and the addition of 8 Megaouattat within 6 weeks.”

For his part, said a spokesman for the Palestinian government in Ramallah, Ghassan al-Khatib said that “the agreement is a continuation of the efforts of the Palestinian Authority in trying to find solutions to the crisis of Gaza’s electricity.”

He added that “This interim arrangement will continue as long as the Gaza Electricity Company to supply the necessary funds and to the implementation of long-term solutions that have been agreed upon with the brothers in Egypt.”

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For its part, Qatar announced on Tuesday that it had provided the first batch of fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip.
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The agency quoted Qatar News quoted an official source at the Foreign Ministry that the directives of the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the State of Qatar to provide the first batch of fuel supplies to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip to be used in the operation of power plants.

Source did not reveal the amount of fuel that was introduced, saying only that “Mecca comes from the positions of the State of Qatar support and assistance to the brotherly Palestinian people, as part of the endeavors to alleviate the suffering experienced by the sector as a result of the siege of the unjust and what might have of humanitarian disasters.”

The head of the government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said yesterday that Qatar has donated the amount of fuel sufficient to run the power plant in the sector for a period of two months, valued at $ 30 million.

The inhabitants of the sector’s more than 1.7 million people are frequent interruptions in power supply up to 18 hours a day due to lack of fuel to run Gaza’s main power station and the only one.

Stations are also experiencing fuel shortages in Gaza fuels, especially diesel and gasoline, which was being smuggled large quantities of it on a daily basis through the tunnels on the border with Egypt.

Israel maintains a blockade on the Gaza Strip since June 2006, and tightened the siege after the control of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the territory in June 2007. Spokesman for the government-led movement ?Hamas? in the Gaza Strip, Taher Nunu that an agreement was reached with the

Palestinian Authority requires the supply of 500 thousand liters of industrial fuel needed to run the only power plant in the sector as of today and in the media center’s director said the government’s authority that Ghassan Khatib will supply about 400 thousand liters only.

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