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"Today in Palestine!" f_shadi
*Gaza under blockade – and the weather*
Qatari diesel to run power plant enters
Gaza<http://www.maannews
GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 15 Dec — Israeli authorities started to pump industrial
diesel donated by Qatar into the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning, a Gaza
official told Ma‘an. The move is part of a temporary agreement to ease the
blockade following days of record flooding that has devastated large
swathes of the besieged coastal enclave. Raed Fattouh, president of a
committee that coordinates the entry of goods into the Gaza Strip, told
Ma‘an that 450,000 liters of diesel donated by Qatar was being shipped to
the coastal enclave via Kerem Shalom crossing on Sunday. Fattouh added that
as a result of an agreement, the Kerem Shalom crossing will temporarily
operate for 12 hours a day in order to allow increased quantities of
gasoline, domestic-use diesel, and gas to enter the Gaza Strip. He added
that the extended hours would begin on Sunday and continue for the next
week. Eight truckloads of strawberries, flowers and spices are expected to
leave the Gaza Strip to European countries through the same crossing on
Sunday, added Fattouh, as Gazans take advantage of the temporary ease on
the Israeli blockade to ship exports. n addition, 100 truckloads of goods
for commercial use and for agriculture will be allowed into the Gaza Strip
as well as limited sums of cement and gravel for internationally-
projects. On Friday, Qatari authorities announced that they would donate
$10 million to Hamas authorities in Gaza in the wake of the humanitarian
crisis caused by severe weather since Thursday.
http://www.maannews
*Gaza power plant rumbles to life as violent storm
passes<http://www.maannews
Qatari diesel to run power plant enters
Gaza<http://www.maannews
GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 15 Dec — Israeli authorities started to pump industrial
diesel donated by Qatar into the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning, a Gaza
official told Ma‘an. The move is part of a temporary agreement to ease the
blockade following days of record flooding that has devastated large
swathes of the besieged coastal enclave. Raed Fattouh, president of a
committee that coordinates the entry of goods into the Gaza Strip, told
Ma‘an that 450,000 liters of diesel donated by Qatar was being shipped to
the coastal enclave via Kerem Shalom crossing on Sunday. Fattouh added that
as a result of an agreement, the Kerem Shalom crossing will temporarily
operate for 12 hours a day in order to allow increased quantities of
gasoline, domestic-use diesel, and gas to enter the Gaza Strip. He added
that the extended hours would begin on Sunday and continue for the next
week. Eight truckloads of strawberries, flowers and spices are expected to
leave the Gaza Strip to European countries through the same crossing on
Sunday, added Fattouh, as Gazans take advantage of the temporary ease on
the Israeli blockade to ship exports. n addition, 100 truckloads of goods
for commercial use and for agriculture will be allowed into the Gaza Strip
as well as limited sums of cement and gravel for internationally-
projects. On Friday, Qatari authorities announced that they would donate
$10 million to Hamas authorities in Gaza in the wake of the humanitarian
crisis caused by severe weather since Thursday.
http://www.maannews
*Gaza power plant rumbles to life as violent storm
passes<http://www.maannews
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