Mörkret sänker sig över nyhetsrapporteringen

Gazaremsan var kolmörk på söndagkvällen, sånär som på ficklampor och enstaka bilstrålkastare. I skymningen tog dieseloljan slut i områdets enda kraftanläggning, efter tre dagars total israelisk blockad.

Detta står att läsa i DN. Och i SvD läser jag att

Mörka byggnader, stående hissar och en sjukvård på väg mot kollaps. Israels strypning av Gazaremsan fick på söndagen kraftiga återverkningar.

Redan tidigare har jag ifrågasatt varför Israel måste förse Gazaremsan med bränsle. I över 30 år har arabländerna vägrat exportera olja till Israel, och ingen bryr sig. Men när Israel vägrar sälja den olja man själv importerat långväga ifrån till ett område som dagligen beskjuter dem med raketer, då djävlar får det vara nog! Sådana är perspektiven.

Men det är mer än så som luktar illa om denna rapportering. Det är helt enkelt ett mediaspin skapat av Hamas för att, i vanlig ordning, fiska sympatier. En handfull artiklar i ynetnews.com ger en ganska klar bild av vad som är på gång:

I den första artikeln hävdar flera företrädare för den israeliska regeringen att det varken råder brist på bränsle, mat eller vatten i Gaza.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak only ordered the restriction of fuel on Thursday, we don't transport fuel as it is on Friday and Saturday, so the order only went into effect today. There is enough diesel in Gaza to power the station. And to the best of our knowledge there is also enough fuel for cars. Enough fuel has been provided and there should not be any shortage. [...]
Our feeling is that someone over there, apparently Hamas, is trying to exaggerate the problem and make it seem as though there is a humanitarian crisis. There is no truth to this

I den andra artikeln uttalar sig en talesman för israeliska armén.

While admitting that the situation in the Gaza Strip was far from good, the official rejected claims that Gazans were suffering from a power shortage due to the shutting down of turbines at the local power plant.

"Even today, Israel is behind 70% of the power supply to Gaza, and therefore any claim to the effect that there are electricity problems in Gaza is unfounded," he stated. "These are media spins by interested parties. We did not cut back on electricity and don't intend to do so at this point.

"The Palestinians are in fact the ones who shut down power for several hours a day in a bid to create a crisis. At the moment, their fuel supply has not run out yet. If there is shortage of fuel oil at the power plants, they should ask themselves what happened to the supply they received."

Intressantast tycker jag ändå den tredje artikeln är, eftersom den synvinkel som återges av Miko Zarfati, som arbetar på Israel Electric Corporation, är så totalt väsensskild från allt som kan tänkas levereras av TT.

The Israeli Electric Company (IEC) is supplying nearly 70% of electricity to the Gaza Strip despite Palestinians' claims of a power shortage in Gaza, said Miko Zarfati, the chairman of the workers' committee at the power company.

"This is Palestinian spin. No one has stopped the supply of electricity to the Strip," Zarfati told Ynet. He claimed that his employees worked day and night in a power plant in Ashkelon while putting themselves in danger of being hit by Qassam rockets falling in the area.

The Gaza power plant only produces 30% of the electricity consumed in the Strip while Israel supplies the rest.

"It is simply offensive and arrogant for them to claim that there is shortage," Zarfati said.

The IEC employee was upset that Israel continues to supply electricity to Gaza while the Qassam rockets continue to land in the western Negev.

"The situation is totally absurd. We're continuing to supply them electricity despite the (demand) overload for electricity in Israel and despite the fact that Israeli residents and Electric Company workers that are being sent to Gaza Vicinity communities are under threat from Qassam rockets," Zarfati railed.

"The Electric Company sends people to fix power outages that are caused from the Qassam barrages everyday in Sderot and the Gaza vicinity and more than one worker has already been injured in these rocket attacks."

According to Zarafti, the workers have been pressuring him to cut off the flow of electricity to the Strip: "I am being pressured to disconnect the electricity, but I am of course a law-abiding man and I cannot do this.

Intressant.se

Uppdatering:
TT struntar blankt i verkligheten. Där är det business as usual...