The Gaza Strip announced a power cut at 14:00 local time. (0500 in central Mexico), the enclave’s electricity company said, after Israel cut the strip from its grid on Saturday, the same day the war began.

To a power plant in Gaza He only has 40 megawatts left. when average demand over the last 12 hours was 560 megawatts with a power shortage of 92%, the company said.

There are currently only 300,000 liters of fuel in the enclave.which covers just 10 hours of daylight and which is currently reserved until Israel agrees to Egypt sending fuel through the Rafah crossing, so the blackout could last several days.

Currently all provinces of Gaza They only have three hours of energy it was followed by 24 more without power.

Since the beginning of the war the strip has suffered 625 power outages lasting several hours.

Gaza depends on Israel for electricity supplies. as well as for importing fuel to power his only plant, but since Saturday he has received neither one nor the other.

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Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant In addition to Sunday, he ordered a “total siege” of Gaza. the import of fuel, food, electricity, medicine or humanitarian aid is prohibited; and yesterday he said Israel was launching a “full offensive” on the Gaza Strip, where indiscriminate bombing has continued.

The power outage is further exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. and brings the enclave’s already overburdened hospitals to the brink of collapse.

On Saturday, Hamas launched a surprise attack on land, sea and air. this caught Israel by surprise, declared war on the Gaza militias, and since then there have been armed clashes at twenty points in Israeli territory and ongoing aerial firefights, rockets from the Strip and Israeli bombing of the enclave.

This new war caused more than 1,200 dead in Israel and more than 3,000 wounded; while retaliatory Israeli airstrikes claimed at least In the Gaza Strip, 1,055 people were killed and 5,184 were injured.

(EFE)