Dark Days in Gaza Reconfirmed
CrossFireArabia- March 10, 2025
Local authorities in Gaza confirmed Monday a power cut in the Palestinian enclave by Israel.
“The Israeli occupation’s cutoff of electricity threatens a health and environmental disaster in Gaza,” Mohammad Thabet, a spokesman of the Gaza Electricity Distribution Company, told the local Al-Aqsa radio.
He said Tel Aviv had supplied electricity to Gaza through 10 power lines before the outbreak of Israel’s genocidal war according to Anadolu.
“Almost 70% of the electricity distribution networks and 90% of warehouses and stores in Gaza were completely destroyed” by the Israeli war, Thabet said.
The spokesman said that 80% of the distribution company’s vehicles were also destroyed in Israeli attacks since October 2023.
Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza on Sunday, in the latest move to tighten a stifling blockade on the enclave despite a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement.
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said that the Israeli move amounts to a “genocide alert,” arguing that without electricity, there is no clean water.
She added that failing to impose sanctions or an arms embargo on Israel amounts to “aiding and assisting Israel in the commission of one of the most preventable genocides of our history.”
Last week, Israel stopped humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, prompting warnings from local and human rights groups of a return to widespread hunger for the Palestinian population.
The first phase of the ceasefire deal, which lasted 42 days, ended in early March without Israel agreeing to move to the second phase or halt the war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to extend the first phase of the prisoner exchange to secure the release of more Israeli captives without fulfilling military or humanitarian obligations outlined in the agreement, appeasing hardliners in his government.
Palestinian group Hamas, however, rejects this approach and insists that Israel abide by the ceasefire terms, urging mediators to push for immediate negotiations on the second phase, which includes a full Israeli withdrawal and an end to the war.
The ceasefire deal has been in place since January, pausing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed more than 48,450 people, mostly women and children, and left the enclave in ruins.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
Israeli Settlers Want a Deal!
- CrossFireArabia
- March 9, 2025
Israeli settlers are currently protesting in Tel Aviv, demanding an immediate prisoner exchange deal with the Palestinian resistance.
Israel Kills 24 Women Journalists in Gaza
- CrossFireArabia
- March 8, 2025
Israeli forces have killed 24 female Palestinian journalists during its genocidal war on Gaza, the head of the Government Media Office in Gaza said on Saturday.
In a statement issued on International Women’s Day, Salama Maarouf said that the killings violated international humanitarian law, adding that they occurred before the “free world, which claims to advocate for women’s rights and the defense of journalists.”
“Their status as women could not protect them from the Israeli army nor could their journalistic immunity shield them from the murderous entity,” he added.
Maarouf also accused the international community of “failing to take substantial action,” saying that “many responses have been limited to statements of condemnation,” which he deemed “hypocritical and inadequate.”
The Gaza Strip has been devastated by the Israeli war, with women and children bearing the brunt of the violence. Together, they have represented 70% of the total death toll, which reached 46,960 by Jan. 19, 2025, according to a report by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics according to Anadolu.
A ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement has been in place in Gaza since Jan. 19, halting Israel’s brutal war, which has killed over 48,400 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and left the enclave in ruins.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its military campaign.
