Israel stops fuel supply to Gaza due to blazing balloons | Currently Middle East | '
Israel blocked fuel supplies to the Mediterranean enclave on Tuesday after a series of Gaza bomb blasts. This informed the responsible Israeli authority. In protest against the Palestinians' boycotted Middle East economic conference in Bahrain, brand balloons from Gaza have been abandoned towards Israel, setting fire to 13 fields, reports the Jerusalem Post. A balloon had hit a kindergarten, but without causing personal injury or property damage. Palestinians have been sending balloons with explosive devices and explosives to Israel for over a year now.
Because of the lack of fuel supplies for the only power plant in the Gaza Strip threatens the approximately two million people there again a deterioration in energy supply. The inhabitants of the Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean have been living for years with constant blackouts. Apart from the power plant, the Gaza Strip also receives power from Israel and Egypt. Many people use generators to generate electricity by the hour.
Fuel from Qatar
Since the Gulf emirate Qatar has paid for fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip since October 2018, the situation has improved somewhat. According to media reports, Qatar has already paid around nine million euros this month.
Not only in Gaza, but also in Ramallah and other cities of the West Bank, there were demonstrations against the US-organized economic workshop in Bahrain, which begins this Tuesday. There, the US government wants to present for the first time its Middle East peace plan, which President Donald Trump described as a "century deal".
According to the media, the meeting is said to be about $ 50 billion worth of investment in the region's economy. More than half of this is to be invested in projects in the West Bank, including a corridor linking the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. Further billions are to go to Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon to promote integration projects for Palestinian refugees.
Also dragons were used again and again to transport incendiary devices (archive image)
Criticism of the above all set up by Trump consultant and succesor Jared Kushner economic plan came from Lebanon, which should receive six billion dollars. According to "The Daily Star Lebanon", parliamentary president Nabih Berri refused to pay for a permanent settlement of the Palestinians in Lebanon and their right of return to their homeland was undermined.
A permanent reception of the approximately 450,000 registered Palestinian refugees would greatly disturb the unstable population between ethnic and religious groups, according to observers.
stu / ar (afp, dpa)
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