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Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2010/1028/Hamas-Fatah-divide-turns-the-lights-out-on-Gazans

Hamas-Fatah Divide Turns the Lights Out on Gazans

(Christian Science Monitor) Liam Stack - The streets in Gaza City hum with hundreds of diesel-powered generators, the only line of defense against a war-damaged electric grid that plunges the territory into 8-hour-long rolling blackouts each day. The lack of electricity is largely due to a protracted disagreement between Gaza's Hamas government and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in the West Bank over who will pay the territory's electricity bill, estimated at more than $20 million each month. From 2006 to November 2009 the EU bought fuel for a local power plant but since December 2009 the EU stopped paying.

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