Egypt 'promises fuel' for Gaza power plant

[FarCenter]

Egypt has promised to provide diesel fuel for the Gaza Strip's sole power plant, which went down this week after running out of fuel, a Gaza official said on Saturday.

"Following our contacts with Egyptian officials, there have been serious promises to furnish us fuel from tomorrow (Sunday)," said Ahmad Abu al-Amrin, from the Gaza energy authority.

To highlight the sense of urgency, dozens of Palestinian medical personnel held a sit-in at Gaza's Rafah crossing into Egypt, urging Cairo's immediate intervention.

The power plant, which supplies around a third of Gaza's electricity, suffers frequent outages, leading to daily blackouts across the Hamas-run territory.

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