Hamas Is Staging Gaza Blackouts.

Gaza receives over 70% of its electricity from Israel and Egypt. Neither one has cut the power to Gaza, nor would they at this time. But Hamas is claiming that there are blackouts all 0ver Gaza. How can that be? Maybe this is the answer, but you won't see it in the Media.

Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah accused Hamas on Tuesday of staging the latest blackouts in the Gaza Strip in a bid to win sympathy and incite the Palestinian public against Israel and the PA.

The officials said that contrary to Hamas's claim, there is no shortage of basic goods, medicine and fuel in the Gaza Strip, largely thanks to the many underground tunnels along the border with Egypt.

This is not the first time that Palestinians have accused Hamas of staging Gaza blackouts under the pretext that Israel had cut off fuel supplies to the district's power grid.

Earlier this year, Palestinian journalists in Gaza City told The Jerusalem Post that scenes of Palestinian children and women holding lit candles in the dark had been staged by Hamas and some Arab satellite TV stations.

"There's no shortage of fuel in the Gaza Strip and the Electricity Company is continuing to function normally," said a PA official. "Our people in the Gaza Strip have told us that the blackouts are all staged as part of the Hamas propaganda."

Another PA official noted that Hamas's lies reached their peak last January when its legislators held a meeting in a darkened hall of the Palestinian Legislative Council - while light could be seen coming in through the curtained windows.

The official accused Al-Jazeera of serving as a platform for Hamas's propaganda machine by airing staged footage of children and women during candlelight protests in the streets of Gaza City.

"There's enough fuel in the Gaza Strip," he said. "Even when Israel reduces the fuel supplies, Hamas continues to smuggle tens of thousands of liters through the underground tunnels."

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Another pack of lies from Hamas. And yet the world will buy it. Why? Because they are against Israel, the sole Jewish nation in the world. The world will call them besieged even though 60 tons of supplies, water, fuel and electricity is funnelled into Gaza from Israel each day. Not each month, but each day.

It is time for the Israelis to call Hamas' bluff and cut off all food, medical, water, fuel and eletricity to the Gaza Strip. Then they can cry Siege. Until then they are only crying wolf.