Gaza’s sole power plant, which provides 25 percent of its electricity, was forced to shut down over the weekend as a result of a payment dispute between Hamas and PA.

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The United Nations Relief Works Agency on Sunday urged Palestinians to stop in-fighting and resolve a deepening electricity “crisis” in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, French news agency AFP reported.
UN car in Gaza

Palestinian girls walk next to a UN car during the visit of John Ging, head of UNRWA, in Gaza City, on June 27, 2010.

“It is such a tragedy that, on top of all the other crises that we have in the Gaza Strip, we now have a crisis of electricity,” John Ging, director of UNRWA in Gaza, told the agency.

“It’s an unbearable situation here at the moment, and it needs to be solved very quickly. It’s a Palestinian problem, made by Palestinians, and causing Palestinian suffering. So let’s have a Palestinian solution,” he told reporters.

Gaza’s sole power plant, which provides 25 percent of its electricity, was forced to shut down over the weekend as a result of a payment dispute between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

Israel supplies about 70 percent of Gaza’s power and Egypt provides five percent, with the power plant supplying the rest.

Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have been fiercely divided since the Islamist movement violently seized power in Gaza in 2007.