Gaza blacked out yet again

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The Gaza Strip's only power plant has shut down due to fuel shortages caused by Israel, cutting electricity to some 800,000 people.

The plant's director Mujahed Salama said that Israel has not delivered industrial diesel fuel needed to operate the plant since Wednesday.

The capital Gaza City as well as refugee camps in the south remain in the dark.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said it was not clear when deliveries would start up again.

The power plant was also shut down for two days in January due to another fuel shortage caused by Israel.

Gaza has been suffering from a lack of fuel due to Israeli imposed sanctions on imports to the territory, as well as a strike by fuel importers, who are protesting the Israeli measures.

The shortages have also interrupted food aid deliveries by the United Nations.

Israel has sealed off the impoverished coastal strip since Hamas seized power 11 months ago after being banished from government, following a stunning victory over the Palestine Liberation Organization's Fatah faction headed by Palestine Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas.

Those elections saw them saw Hamas take 76 of the 132 parliamentary seats in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip.  

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