(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Thousands of people took to the streets in central Gaza Monday evening over increasing power cuts, the latest in a series of protests that appear to have erupted over the issue.
The demonstrations, which began Saturday in Rafah, Khan Younis, Al-Nusairat and al-Maghazi in the southern and in central parts of the Gaza Strip, are the largest in years.
Electricity shortages in the Gaza Strip began in 2006 when Israeli F16 fighter jets bombed Gaza's sole power plant. Since then, the plant has operated on minimal capacity .
Cuts in electricity are just one of many hardships that Palestinians have endured in recent years, including unrelenting poverty and unemployment amid virtual imprisonment in the coastal strip During the protest, demonstrators burned tires and chanted against the electricity company, urging it to stop its ongoing blackouts.
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