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Gaza power plant shuts down
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By Agencies
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 | | The Rafah border was briefly opened for patients |
A power plant in Gaza City has shut down, affecting 500,000 local inhabitants and forcing local hospitals to run on reserve fuel.
Large parts of the Gaza Strip, particularly Gaza City, were in darkness after the main power station shut down its generators on Saturday.
The Hamas government's energy department said that about 55 per cent of Gaza City and 35 per cent of the territory's other areas had power outages as a result of the shutdown.
With hospital generators running out of fuel, it is feared that medical equipment will stop functioning soon.
Border opened
An estimated 60 per cent of Gaza's power supply comes from its own power station and the rest from Israel. In the past, Israel has resumed fuel supplies just hours before Gaza's stocks ran out.
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