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Who Is Responsible for the Gaza Electricity Crisis?
(Media Line-Jerusalem Post) Omar Ghraieb - Hassan Younis, the Egyptian minister of energy and electricity, put the onus for the electricity blackouts in Gaza on Hamas. Cairo is prepared to supply fuel at low cost to Gaza in consideration of the hardships of life there, he said, but it wants the supplies to be shipped in an orderly fashion, through Israel's Kerem Shalom crossing. Instead, he said, Hamas wants to rip off Egyptian taxpayers by buying energy that is subsidized by the Egyptian government for its own people and smuggle it through the network of tunnels running under the Gaza border, where Hamas can then collect import taxes on the fuel.