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Nights for Gaza’s 2.2 million residents have not been completely dark since the 11th, with generators providing minimal power to vital facilities such as hospitals.
With the war, Israel cut off its supplies, on which the Palestinian territory partially depends, and disrupted the flow of fuel, leading to the cessation of activities at Gaza’s only power plant. If the siege continues and the fuel supply runs out, the generators will also be switched off and the power outage will become a total blackout.
The chronic electricity problem is just one of several deficiencies in the local infrastructure that are a result of recurring conflicts. Yasser Arafat International Airport, for example, was destroyed in 2002 during Israel’s response to the Second Intifada (Palestinian uprising from 2000 to 2005) and never reopened.
In the current war, water treatment plants in Tel Aviv were hit by bombings, reducing public supplies to less than 5% of prewar levels.
This precarious situation has a direct impact on overcrowded emergency shelters. At least 1.3 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, more than half of the territory’s total population.
The following infographics detail the poor infrastructure and show how Israel and Egypt control the flow of goods and people. The two countries agreed to allow the entry of 20 trucks with supplies this Saturday (21) which will not change the emergency situation of the residents of the Gaza Strip.