Love of the Land: Hamas And Fatah Succeed Where Israel Failed: Close Gaza's Only Power Plant

Hamas And Fatah Succeed Where Israel Failed: Close Gaza's Only Power Plant

Daled Amos
11 April '10

In June 2006, Israel launched Operation Summer Rains in an attempt to both suppress the firing of rockets into Israel and to rescue the kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit.

As a result of the Israeli operation, Gaza's only power plant was bombed--but that was only the beginning of the story, because it turned out that the plant was insured by a US government agency.

Even then, the issue was not that simple:

But paying a claim on the plant, which was insured for $48 million, could prove problematic for the United States, which cut off funding for all infrastructure projects in the Palestinian territories after the militant group Hamas won legislative elections in January.

Administration officials said the restrictions on working with a Hamas-led government could further complicate the repair of the electric facility, which could take weeks, if not months, to fix because of the escalating violence in Gaza.
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Even when one of the 2 investors in the power plant--Enron--went bankrupt, that did not stop the plant from being built, so it is not surprising that Israel could not bring the power plant to an end.

But then along comes Hamas and Fatah:

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Love of the Land: Hamas And Fatah Succeed Where Israel Failed: Close Gaza's Only Power Plant