Officials at the Gaza Strip's main power station warned on Friday that the poor isolated enclave would suffer serious shortage of power due to a shortage of fuel, according to dpa. Rafiq Mleiha, director of Gaza power station, told a news conference in Gaza City that the station had partially stopped supplying power to wide areas of the Gaza Strip "due to a shortage of fuel." According to official figures, the population in the Gaza Strip, which has been controlled by the Islamic Hamas movement since June 14, is 1.5 million. "We are sorry to say that we would be obliged to turn off three generators out of four starting on Friday evening until Sunday morning. If there is no fuel, the power station will be shut down," Mleiha said. He denied that there was any strategically stocked fuel in the Gaza Strip "because Israel has been pumping quantities of fuel that enough for Gazans' daily consumption", he was quoted as saying.
