Adding to the humanitarian calamity in the ongoing Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, the nation’s military attacked Gaza’s only power plant, a diesel-fueled plant which provides roughly two-thirds of electricity for the strip’s 1.8 million people.
Lack of reliable fuel supplies have kept the plant running only intermittently, and locals were reporting only about three hours of electricity a day. Now, they’re down to basically none.
The director of the Gaza City electricity authority confirmed “the power plant is finished,” and that it will likely take a full year or more before it is repaired enough to resume generation.
The problem is even deeper than just electricity for civilian homes, as the water pumps in the strip also ground to a halt today for lack of power. Gaza City officials are urging civilians to carefully ration water consumption, and prepare for shortages.
War crimes. Short trials, long drops, short ropes all the way around in a just world.
Hospitals, playgrounds, schools, water and sewage treatment facilities, now the power plant! Even if you were to fatuously blame Hamas for "hiding" themselves and their firecracker missiles in these places, holy mother effer Israel has lost this propaganda war big time. Netty was never a very sympathetic figure to begin with…kind of an a$$wipe actually…but the avalanche of innocent deaths here? No one except the paid trolls, angry, sexless war nerds with tiny weiners, and the Israel Uber Alles psychopaths in the MSM propaganda stations will see this as anything else than CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!
When is a war crime not a war crime?
When Israel (and by extension the US) does it!
The report that I heard on this was that it was Israeli TANKS that took out the power plant. If this is true- and I have no reason to doubt the report- there can be NO claim of 'accidental targeting' or 'collateral damage'. The main guns on tanks aren't shotguns- they don't just blast out and hit whatever is is front of them; they are extremely precise, computer-stabilized weapons that WILL hit what you aim it at. The IDF prides itself on its tank corps being so professional, so there's no wiggle room for 'mistakes' this time.
Regardless, the deliberate targeting of the power station is a clear violation of the rules of war- you don't indiscriminately attack civilian infrastructure, period. And with it being the ONLY power plant for the entire territory, Israel is about to have a huge problem on its hands, moreso than it does already. Where are those 1.8 million Gazans going to go? Bibi better think fast before he's labeled the new Jurgen Stroop, clearing out the Gaza version of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Bibi spokesperson was on CNN and blames Hamas for taking out the power station…..ok, who is supplying Hamas with F16 fighter jets?
Destruction is the name of the game played by USG and EU, if these destructive governments didn't want for Gaza power plant not to be destroyed they could have stopped it, by boycotting Israel yesterday, they are as guilty as the fascist regime of Netanyahu and the Israeli Labour Party is.
Israel has bombed that power station repeatedly since its inception. An icon of Palestinian attempt at divesting itself from Israel control and a money making Insurance scam worthy of Madoff. Built at a cost of $150mil with Palestinian $$$ is insured by OPIC for only $$48mil.
There is method to Israels mass murder and thievery, without the Gaza power station, electricity will again be sourced from Israel at worldwide exorbitant tariffs and the US taxpayer will foot the bill as Israel reaps the profit.
Exactly. The US will not only pay for the destroyed power plant; it will pay for all the other damage done by Israel. Instead of "the world's only superpower" it ought to be "the world's only stupid power." Post modern America is the biggest joke on Earth.
Select members of the OPIC paid the premium and on queue Israel bombs the Power Station they all collect $mils but delayed fixing the Plant because of the 'US imposed sanctions' against Hamas.
.Not unlike the' Lucky Silverstein WTC' he paid premium on one building but wanted payment on 2 or the NY 'Blk Widow Murders' where the 2Jewish women insures homeless men for $$3mil kills them and collect the Insurance.The 2 women were imprisoned for their crime hope Bibi shares the same fate
This is a siege of a civilian population, plain and simple. When disease comes to kill more people due to lack of sanitary water, who will be the culprit? I am disgusted that those whose country came about partly because of the horror of the concentration camps where so many of their own relatives were killed, have resorted to this kind of attack in order to kill an organization they helped to create also — Hamas.
The US Congress may once again have shown its craven fealty to this out-of-control state, but that only proves one thing: They cannot agree on anything of benefit to the American people, but they are unanimous is enabling Israel because – guess what – those Israelis who boasted they control America (it was not just some antisemitic slur) were telling the truth, and our own representatives have shown they are cowards and liars, licking the boots of people they think rule over them. They won't like it if they one day wind up worse off than Palestinians. It will be kismet.
Some years ago the Israeli military theorist Martin Van Creveld speculated that the Palestinian population could be driven out of the West Bank with the expenditure of roughly 10,000 artillery shells.
Per square kilometer.
It wasn't clear at the time if he was talking about something unthinkable or not. It certainly seemed unthinkable at the time.
But now the Israelis appear to have decided to render Gaza uninhabitable.
Where they think the people will go is unclear.
I suspect that if asked, they would respond that where they go is none of their concern, because they are not responsible for any of this.
As they begin to die in very large numbers- which in the absence of water should not take very long- the ability of Israel to stand excused from the effects of its actions will be tested.
Can Israel kill thousands with impunity? Obviously, yes. Can they kill tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands? All?
I think the Israeli planners who project those kinds of losses on the part of the Gazans would reasonably quote A. H. "Who remembers the Armenians?"
Who is going to speak against them as Gazans start to die in numbers ten or more times those that have died so far? Obama? Kerry? Congress?
It doesn't seem likely.
They've already herded the remaining population of Gaza into 55% of Gaza. It appears they are going to continue to herd them into smaller and smaller spaces, with no water or food.
At this point Israel seems to have calculated that they are in a position to execute a decisive resolution to the problem. And the world will stand by and watch.
It's all very well to manipulate the American public into thinking Saddam had to go because of how he treated members of a different religious group in his own country. But Israel is precisely in the position he was, and yet the US Congress has unanimously voted to approve its actions in "defending itself" when not giving a whisper of equal time to the Gazans.
It appears that two standards exist for judging the same actions of human beings. One group is above criticism. I suspect the reason for this is cowardice on the part of the US Congress, deep and pervasive terror that the first person to stop clapping for Israel will be dealt with as Saddam dealt with his own "supporters." Frankly, it does not imply love of Israel, but just the opposite. If you love someone, you rebuke their sins.
I guess by wiping out the power, water and sewage systems on Gaza, Israelis must be "safer".
Israel will be even safer once they "transfer" the Palestinians out of the occupied territories. Maybe they should ask Congress to take them off their hands. I'm sure Congress would be more than happy to help out seeing how this is Israel.