The only power plant in the Gaza Strip, which is under Israeli bombardment and siege, shut down Wednesday after it ran out of fuel, said the Palestinian enclave's electricity authority.
"The only power plant in the Gaza Strip stopped functioning at 2:00 pm (1100 GMT)," the authority's head Jalal Ismail said in a statement, having earlier warned that it was running short of fuel.
Israel has imposed a "complete siege" on the Gaza Strip as it continues to bomb Hamas targets after the group's fighters launched a brutal assault on Israel on Saturday morning.
"We've decided to cut the supply of water, electricity and fuel, and now their local power plant has collapsed and there's no electricity in Gaza," the Israeli energy minister, Israel Katz, said in a statement.
"We'll continue tightening the siege until the Hamas threat on Israel and the world is removed."
This picture taken on August 6, 2022 shows a view of a fuel silo at the Nuseirat natural gas power station, the sole plant operating in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. The only power plant in the Gaza Strip, which is under Israeli bombardment and siege, shut down on October 11 after it ran out of fuel, said the Palestinian enclave's electricity authority. AFP
A girl sits next to a container as Palestinians gather to fill water from public taps amid the conflict with Israel in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip Wednesday. REUTERS
