The first time that Majid Mashrawi left her home, Gaza was in 2017, to visit Tokyo. Her journey landed late at night, and she had many sparkling lights at the airport. Then when she reached the urban core, she was amazed. “This is the life that people enjoy outside Gaza?” I thought. “Why do we not have this life?”
He grew up, Mashari was used to life with an inconsistent force – at least three hours a day. She said: “It is not easy to describe unless you live it.” “Your life is completely spoiled. Everything is controlled by others. Your life is controlled when energy is turned on and stops.”
Last week, Israel cut all electricity to the Gaza Strip In an attempt to strengthen her hand against Hamas in Conflict talks. But in reality, the relationship between the two sides of energy has a long history. In 2007, after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip, it established Israel The siege of land and sea. This electricity included: Israel came to control 10 power generation lines operating in Gaza, as well as the diesel fuel needed to operate the power plant. The siege also gave the heat of the Israel Gate heat on any materials – cement, steel and batteries – necessary for local infrastructure, if the Israeli authorities ruled that they could help the militants.
Elai Rettig, a lecturer in the Energy Policy at Bar Ilan University, said that the Israeli security establishment believed that this hammer on Ghazan’s energy means benefiting from Hamas. As for Hamas, many Ghazan felt that the group was more interested in the Crusader campaign against Israel than dealing with public works.
For the people of Gaza, the conflict meant the poverty of energy. Common energy resources in the tape can meet at best a quarter to a third of the demand. This has been translated into daily power outages by an average of 12 to 16 hours a day. Worse than that, Maherwi said that the power outage was not expected – whenever the authority joined, you would have to scramble. This insane reliable has been particularly fell on slimWho were forced to disturb all household chores in these transit windows.
But over the past decade, with the decline in solar energy prices around the world, more Israeli leaders have begun to think that obtaining solar energy in Gaza had a strategic benefit. Energy dependence in Gaza was not cheap. Years of the Palestinian corresponding parties that failed to pay the energy bill in Gaza – for financial and political reasons – achieved by 2023 debts to Israel, with a value of two billion shekels, about $ 500 million.
In 2016 and 2017, Israel approved about 100,000 solar panels to enter Gaza, according to Researchers At Jerusalem University. Soon, satellite photos showed the solar array that germinates on thousands of buildings across the Gaza Strip, especially in crowded areas such as refugee camps.
Soon from Mashhawawi’s trip to Tokyo, she was working to start a company that manufactures the ruins of the Gaza war in the brick. But its production lines were continuing by the beginning of the network. It happened to her that the unreliable force was not just a burden in captivity, such as the one in which it grew up. Thousands of companies throughout Gaza – restaurants, workshops and bakeries – are more reliable energy source than they were. Mashourawi decided to enter the energy field.
Sunbox, a social institution that promotes solar energy, began in 2017, working largely with the Israeli authorities to obtain approval of equipment. I started selling small matrices – kilowatt and even higher, enough to run a house with a small refrigerator – for families. Soon it helped provide larger projects. Sunbox 20 Small water desalination model, gas production engines in Ghazan, with solar energy. The solar energy lamps have been created so that girls feel more confident in walking to school in the early hours.
Large international organizations such as the World Bank and the United Nations were in the game, decorating hospitals and schools in solar energy. The 7 -megawatt system, was partially funded by the International Finance Company, or the International Finance Corporation, was funded by the Gaza Industrial complex, a manufacturing complex. IFC said the most smooth energy source made it possible to expand production and employment.
It was a renewed revolution born from the political imbalance. The total number of solar array in the Gaza Strip Domesticated From about ten in 2012 to 8760 in 2019, mostly in the form of small systems on the surface. Exceptional growth to make The occupied Palestinian territories is one of the fastest growing energy markets in the world. By 2023, solar energy represented between 25 to 40 percent of power generation during the day on a rough Ghazan network, Retig, from Bar Elan University.
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Then it came on October 7, 2023. She spent the first two months of the war in calling for the preferences and trying to transfer her family to Egypt. Meanwhile, Sunbox offices and warehouses were destroyed. Mashrawi is sad for the loss of a colleague of dear work, Mahmoud Abuchwish, who said she was ventured north to help a school create a solar – and find some candy for children.
Israel’s military attack on Gaza took at least 48,000 life and left its infrastructure in Tharat. In February, a temporary evaluation was estimated, led by the World Bank 53 billion dollars In reconstruction needs. He said that 80 percent of the power infrastructure in Gaza had been destroyed and that Ghazan had witnessed “almost completely” since the beginning of the war. Since Gaza’s water supply depends on its pumping and purification, availability has decreased to external levels. “There is no water or electricity. I told Steve Witkev, President Donald Trump’s envoy, Middle East envoy,” it is amazing about the amount of damage that occurred there. Intuition After visiting the region in January.
The ceasefire stopped in January, which was almost observed even as its first stage ended on March 1, the bombing stopped. But the talks to end the war did not gain traction, and the feeling of a lot that the right -wing government of Israel, which was encouraged by Trump’s return, wanted to resume the fighting. Meanwhile, most of the 2.1 million people live in Gaza in desperate conditions in displacement camps and other temporary shelters, and they are often exposed to elements and have minimal access to basic services. The humanitarian groups of Israel and the international community are begging to maintain the ceasefire and falling aid to improve conditions in these camps – we hope, as savings for reconstruction.
With the weakness of Hamas, the global powers decided the future of Gaza. In February, Trump suggested that he invaded and re -development Gaza as a luxury recipient. The idea won the scanners of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – and the factional rejection by Arab and Western allies. Trump’s vision is not a step with the majority of governments and experts who believe that rebuilding Gaza can, and this must be done in a way that enables the Palestinians to live a better life on their soil, without forming a threat to Israel.
Energy access is the minimum in Gaza today. But solar energy has become one of the few ways to get it. About half of the electrons that Ghazan uses today comes from solar energy, according to December estimates by the shelter group, a group that coordinates the relief organizations operating in Gaza. The other half of diesel comes as a customary fuel for post -disaster scenarios, but relief groups say that Israel blocks the necessary supplies.
With the absence of almost new devices, Gazans has created an internal economy of the clean technology used. Solar units and peripheral devices are torn from the surfaces, they are rescued from the rubble, and they are sold on Facebook. In many of the internal displaced camps who give up the tape, you will see the solar panels tend to the walls and chairs – facing the sun. Some serve commercial ends. “You can find a man with one plate, a table, and his work is actually charging mobile phones and charging the batteries,” said one of the 55 -year -old in Ghazan whose family was displaced several times during the war.
The relief groups that serve these camps hope that the most violent stage in the war is in the past and can switch to the creation of basic services: food, water, shelter and critical health care. With diesel supplies, some try to import solar powered equipment instead. The United Nations Development Program wants to publish 1,100 Women’s housing units, each of which is equipped with kilos of solar and primitive plumbing, as part of a 27 million dollar program. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said in a statement that the establishment of the out -of -network photovoltaic systems is very important to restore agricultural activities such as irrigation and cold storage.
Jumpstarting in Gaza, an alliance of Palestinians, Israelis and international NGOs, supports Palestinian displaced camps run by the Palestinians with 12,000 people in southern Gaza with goods and equipment. The group looks to create a set of solar-electricity-powered services, wastewater treatment, and even units that produce drinking water from air-to make them self-sufficient and generous places to live during reconstruction, whenever they should start. But in reality, a few traditional equipment has been reached before the ceasefire, and all equipment’s entries have been stopped since then, said David Lirer, a co -leader of the initiative.
Although the war is not officially ended, many gaskets return to their homes, or the places where their homes are standing. Some have started the early work of clearing the rubble and putting comfort in the bodies they find – a glimpse of the huge mourning that awaits us.
For the long term, strong parties are already competing to enhance their visions of reconstruction. This month, Egypt, along with 21 other members in the Arab League, issued a Plans What is meant to confront Trump’s “Riviera” concept. The construction of 2500 megawatts is proposed to generate energy-about 20 times what Gaza was before the war-including solar energy, wind and fossil fuel. They are not alone in the perception of Gaza as a renewable power force. The Palestinian Authority, which hopes to replace Hamas as a ruling body in Gaza, is working on developing a major plan for the infrastructure priorities that will be completed with the World Bank, the European Union, the United Nations and the Arab countries. Will Zakot, Minister of Planning for Power and International Cooperation, said that solar and wind farms throughout Gaza can make it “the first region in the world to reach zero carbon emissions.”
There is another idea that was presented-that Trump approved in his first term-a solar farm in the Sinai deserts with the sun, across the southern border in Gaza. Supporters say this has double benefits: it liberates the land in Gaza for other uses, and because it is in Egypt, it is unlikely to be targeted by Israel.
But renewable energy will not be the only resource that was considered to be re -tension in Gaza. The field of modest natural gas abroad was discovered in Gaza in 2000. Political and economic conditions prevented it from developing it, but the United States, Egypt and Israel described it as an unexploited energy reserve in Gaza. In November 2023, Amos Hochstein“Once we arrive to the next day and this terrible war ends, there are companies ready to develop these areas,” said an envoy in the Middle East to President Joe Biden and former Energy Executive Director. Prisoners that work with gas will claim the total power supply in Gaza and enable the main new industrial infrastructure, such as water desalination and wastewater treatment, which would improve daily life.
Joseph Abramovitz, an Israeli -American solar developer working with Palestinian partners before, believes that focusing on large projects loses the decentralized character, the most successful of them in Gaza. “The story of Gaza is: large projects that are not accomplished.”
ABRAMOWITz Form the Favorite ABRIGRIDS: Topical networks of solar panels and battery storage, which he said can provide the energy around the clock with a broken gas that works with gas. It is flexible and sustainable, and they are important in the context of Ghazan for the siege, repeated war, and bad critical-ancient with or without a major solution to the Israeli and female conflict.
As for Mershawi, she said that her vision for reconstruction involves something more essential than energy: peace and calm.
“From year to two years from now, where are we going?” She said. “We don’t want to continue building and rebuilding the things that have been destroyed.”
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