from Daily Sabah
Israel announced Sunday it had ordered a halt to electricity supplies to Gaza, reinforcing a total aid blockade imposed on the Palestinian territory a week earlier.
The move has echoes of the earliest days of the war when Israel announced a "siege" that included an electricity cutoff to Gaza.
"I have just signed the order to stop supplying electricity immediately to the Gaza Strip," Cohen said in a video statement, adding: "We will use all the tools at our disposal to bring back the hostages and ensure that Hamas is no longer in Gaza the day after" the war.
The only power line between Israel and Gaza supplies the territory's main water desalination plant, which serves more than 600,000 people.
Gazans depend mainly on solar panels and fuel generators for their electricity.
The connection to the desalination plant was cut off after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas incursion before being reconnected in July 2024.
However, the plant was unable to resume operations until December that year, as the power lines had been too badly damaged by the war.
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