Israel turns off the juice for Gaza as Gaza talks stalled

When fighting a war, it is never a good idea to supply your enemy with food or anything else that would maintain their strength and ability to kill your brothers and sisters in arms. Yet Israel is the only country I know that sends food into Gaza and supplies them with electricity. Then the Arabs fighting the Israelis use civilians, including children and mothers, as human shields and cry crocodile tears when a civilian is killed or wounded. 

Israel, knowing how the public feels bad and pities them when they are killed, but hate them when they fight back, does all it can to minimize civilian casualties. Israel knows Hamas, et al., will use it against them in their propaganda and give the anti-Semites of the world fodder for their faux reason to hate the, you know, Joooze!

Hamas took 251 hostages on October 7, 2023, and Israel wants those who remain in captivity, dead and alive, to be returned. Hamas still holds nearly 60 hostages, most of whom they already killed, and Israel wants them back, as does President Trump, since about five of those held are Americans.

Well, Israel is tired of playing the so called 'good guy' and has now elected to cut off electricity to Gaza. It's about time.

Energy Minister and Cabinet member Eli Cohen signed an order to immediately halt the supply of electricity to the Gaza Strip. "In accordance with my authority, I am instructing the Israel Electric Corporation to stop the transfer of electricity to Gaza," Cohen's directive stated. His decision was reportedly made independently and was not based on a government or cabinet resolution.

A senior Israeli official said that cutting off water supply to Gaza is also under consideration. "As part of Israel’s toolbox, severing water pipelines to Gaza is on the table. The first pipeline to be cut would be the one supplying northern Gaza, but no decision has been made yet," the official said.

This is how war is supposed to be fought. You do not help the enemy remain strong in spite of how those anti-Semitic a-holes will blame you for those 'atrocities,' as they justify the slaughter on October 7th as justified.

At the outset of the war, Israel announced it would cease supplying electricity to Gaza. However, under pressure from the United States and European countries, the supply initially continued. Evidently, it doesn't look nice for Israel to win and therefore exist.

The Gaza Electricity Company had previously extended cables along Salah al-Din Street to directly power a desalination and wastewater treatment facility west of Deir al-Balah using electricity from Israel.

Since the outbreak of the war that Hamas started, Israel has not supplied electricity to Gaza, except for one line, known as the Qalaa line. It directly powers desalination facilities. At the beginning of the war, approximately 10 power lines from Israel supplied Gaza, but most were subsequently disabled. Aside from the single remaining Israeli power line, Hamas has relied on generators to provide electricity to residents.

It is clearly time for Israel to starve Hamas out and force them to surrender, not simply stop shooting. This is how a war is fought.

Gaza’s power plant stopped operations early in the war they started. If Hamas runs out of fuel, now that Israel decided to stop feeding the enemy and ended aid deliveries while also closing border crossing, the terrorists will not be able to operate the generators.

International aid organizations estimate that Hamas has enough fuel to run generators for about 45 more days.

The IDF recently said that maintaining the Qalaa power line was necessary to prevent the spread of disease, which could endanger both hostages and soldiers operating in the area, but Cohen has now ordered a complete halt to the transfer of electricity.

Last week, the municipality of Deir al-Balah announced that Israel had cut off electricity to two desalination plants that supply 70% of the city’s water needs. Israeli officials, however, became defensive and stated that there had been no deliberate cutoff and that a local malfunction had disrupted supply. They said repairs had not yet been approved due to ongoing military operations in the area. 

The Israel Defense Forces previously justified supplying electricity to the desalination plant last summer, pointing out that it provided drinking water to displaced residents in Mawasi, Khan Younis, and Deir al-Balah before the withdrawal from the Netzarim corridor as part of a cease-fire arrangement.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich had opposed the electricity supply to Gaza, criticizing infrastructure repairs six months ago. "We have completely lost our minds. We are rehabilitating Gaza with our own hands before its demilitarization—especially its hospitals, which serve as terror hubs," he said at the time. "Prime Minister, stop this folly. This time, no one will be able to say we didn’t know."

Yes, Smotrich is correct. This is not how to win a war with people who want to kill you, your family and your Israeli friends.

Last week, following Israel’s decision to halt humanitarian aid to Gaza, Smotrich welcomed the move. "This is a step in the right direction, and I can assure you it is only the beginning," he said. "We are closing the gates of paradise and preparing to open the gates of hell. The next step will be cutting off electricity and water, followed by an intense, deadly, and rapid attack that will lead to the conquest of the territory and the implementation of the Trump plan to encourage emigration from Gaza."

Now that's how to win a war.

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