Israel turns off power to hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians in the dead of winter
Hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians are cashed strapped this winter because Israel is
withholding $240 million in tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority as
punishment for joining the ICC. This is radical, though it’s not unusual and
something we’ve come to expect. But turning off the electricity in the middle
of winter as blizzards sweep across the Middle East is nothing short of
sadistic. The Los Angeles Times reports Israel cut the power to more than
700,000 Palestinians in two of Palestine’s largest urban areas, Nablus and
Jenin, for more than 45 minutes “and warned that more outages are coming
if Palestinian officials don’t pay millions of dollars in outstanding debt.” 
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