The Minister of Energy Eli Cohen He announced on Sunday that the electricity from Israel to Gaza has been interrupted. Doron Arbelypresident of Israel Electric Corporation, spoke to Radio 103fmsaying: «An electrical line that transported the electricity from Israel to a desalinization system inside Gaza has been interrupted. This is the only desalinization system that receives electricity from Israel, and therefore it is significant. From July to today, the structure has provided water to the residents, and has now stopped, “explained Arbely. He added: «IEC is an operating company. We are not responsible for any strategy or politics. We direct the directives of the Minister of Energy, Mr. Eli Cohen. I believe that this obviously influenced the water supply in Gaza, since it is impossible to replace the electricity supply that came from Israel with generators and structures capable of providing the same energy supply, therefore it is very significant. They have other water sources, but this electrical line will not work ». Arbely stressed: «Today there is no electrical line that goes from Israel to Gaza, and we are not responsible for the electricity grid there. Most of the electricity supplied to Gaza come from solar panels and generators ».
He added that “Israel does not provide electricity at Gaza at all. Since the beginning of the war, Israel has not provided electricity in Gaza, except for the connection of this line ». The Israeli officials have spoken with their homologues of the Trump administration to clarify the question of the talks between the correspondent of the White House for the hostages, Adam Boehler, and the terrorist organization Hamas regarding the release of the hostages from Gaza. according to what is reported by Kan Resta Bet the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu And his staff reported on Sunday to the government that “the parties agreed that any interviews between Boehler and the terrorist organization would be fully coordinated with Israel”. The government ministers were said that “the problem has been solved”. All this happens after some reports have spoken of not coordinated interviews with Israel. Last week, Axios revealed a heated discussion between Boehler and the Minister of Israeli strategic affairs, Ron Dermerregarding Israel’s serious concerns about the current secret negotiations. Boehler He spoke openly contacts with Hamas and his conversation with Dermer in a series of interviews given on Sunday to American and Israelis media. He said to Kan News That “Hamas suggested that they would release all the hostages, deposited the weapons and would no longer be part of the policy of Gaza and that the United States and their allies would guarantee that there was no longer any military infrastructure in Gaza. In return, there would have been a five to ten years and the United States and other countries would have helped to reconstruct Gaza ». He later made a brand back on social media: «I want to be clear how some have interpreted badly. Hamas is a terrorist organization that has assassinated thousands of innocent people. They are by definition bad people. And as President Trump said, no Hamas member will be safe if Hamas does not release all the hostages immediately ».
Israel today sent a delegation to Doha for a new round of interviews on the extension of the fragile cessation of fire in Gaza, after interrupting the aid to the Strip in an attempt to increase the pressure on Hamas. In the meantime, the correspondent of the White House, Steve Witkoff, should go to Saudi Arabia tomorrow and subsequently in the capital of Qatar, according to reports from Channel 12 News. The so -called “Witkoff scheme“, Supported by the USA but of which the merits have not been attributed, is under discussion in the interviews, according to the network. The scheme would see Hamas release 10 hostages still alive, including the American-Israeli Edan Alexander, in exchange for another 60 days of ceased the fire. There are still significant differences in terms of the continuation of the truce, which largely interrupted the violence that broke out after Hamas’ attack against Israel on October 7, 2023. On that occasion, thousands of terrorists crossed the border from Gaza, killing about 1,200 people and taking 50 people hostage. Hamas has repeatedly requested the implementation of the second phase of the agreement, mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, which would predict the release of 24 hostages, still alive, in exchange for the definitive end of the war. The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Eyal Zamirmet on Sunday for their first working meeting, during which they discussed the preparations for the IDF for a possible resumption of military operations in the Gaza Strip, if the negotiations with Hamas did not advance in the next few days, according to what reported by Kan News. Last Thursday, during a visit to the southern command, Zamir approved the plans for the resumption of fighting. He also appointed the commander Yaron Finkleman to review the strategy, making changes to make the next earth operation. The key points of the plan approved by the Chief of Staff include intense air attacks, a wider land operation than the previous ones, a new evacuation of the population from the northern Gaza strip and the preparation for the call of hundreds of thousands of reservists.
