{"id":143877,"date":"2015-02-25T22:27:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T22:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=143877"},"modified":"2015-02-25T22:27:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T22:27:36","slug":"israel-turns-power-hundreds-thousands-palestinians-dead-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israel-turns-power-hundreds-thousands-palestinians-dead-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Turns off Power to Hundreds of Thousands of Palestinians in the Dead of Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s not unusual and something we\u2019ve come to expect. But turning off the electricity in the middle of winter as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestine.com\/2015\/02\/blizzards-sweep-across-middle-east-blanketing-jerusalems-dome-of-the-rock-with-snow\/\">blizzards sweep across the Middle East<\/a>\u00a0is nothing short of sadistic. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/middleeast\/la-fg-israel-electricity-west-bank-palestinians-20150223-story.html\"><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> reports<\/a> Israel cut the power to more than 700,000 Palestinians in two of Palestine\u2019s largest urban areas, Nablus and Jenin, for more than 45 minutes\u00a0\u201cand warned that more outages are coming if Palestinian officials don\u2019t pay millions of dollars in outstanding debt.\u201d<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-11626\"><\/span><br \/>\nCiting Yiftah Ron-Tal, the director of Israel Electric Corp. (IEC), the<em> Times<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomers who do not pay electric bills are disconnected; yet here we have an entire population that doesn\u2019t pay while we continue to supply electricity,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Palestinian Authority owes the IEC \u2013 meaning the paying consumers \u2013 nearly 2 billion Israeli shekels [about $500 million]. A year has passed since I said this last and nothing has changed. Starting today, we will begin restricting electricity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2015\/02\/hundreds-thousands-palestinians\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s not unusual and something we\u2019ve come to expect. But turning off the electricity in the middle of winter as blizzards sweep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}