Fact Sheet: Gaza's Electricity Crisis | May 2010

Since January 2010, there has been a serious deterioration in the supply of electricity in the Gaza Strip; the Gaza Power Plant (GPP) has most days produced half the electricity it used to in 2009 due to lack of funds to purchase the industrial fuel required to operate the plant. This fact sheet describes the humanitarian impact of the chronic power shortfall, including people killed and injured due to reliance on mobile back-up generators.