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Report: Impact Of Power Outages On Human Rights In Gaza
Report: Impact Of Power Outages On Human Rights In
Gaza Strip
Gaza-Interior
Ministry
24/05/2012
Continuing of power outages in
the Gaza Strip on a daily basis after the Israeli occupation
forces shelled the only power plant in the Strip at the end
of June 2006, led to increasing the suffering of the
civilian population who are subjected to collective and
strict punishments violations on the rules of international
humanitarian law in an orderly form
.
The Service of
electricity supply in the Gaza Strip suffers from a range of
complex technical problems, related the practices of the
Israeli occupation forces to destroy and shell transformers,
networks and supply lines in all aggression on the Gaza
Strip, and bombing of the power station and the destruction
of its transformers, in addition to obstruct the passage of
industrial diesel allocated to run power station in
Gaza.
Also, the blockade of Gaza strip the political
divide led to tighten the crisis of electricity and solar
and played an important role in the escalation of the crisis
and create more problems on the level of providing the
services.
These data combined produced a dire reality on
the level of providing this service and ensure uninterrupted
power supply, to increase the point of supply to 6 hours
during the day In the best cases for 16 hours a day,
distributed over the twenty four hours.
As a result, a severe scarcity of fuel and a power ,which reached a crisis point, causing a serious setback for all the service and productivity sectors. So It was a serious repercussions on the overall human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights.
This report examines the impact of power
outages on human rights in the Gaza Strip through its focus
on the most important sectors affected by the crisis as
reflected negatively on the provision of services to
citizens, contributing significantly to the sources of their
rights, these rights: the right of health, water, food,
education, economic and social rights in
general.
ENDS
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