Gaza-Interior Ministry
I met him sad .. Hits his right hand to the left .. I closed to him and asked what happened to you? .. He answered and said she was sleeping as angels, and her mother was preparing a lunch for us .. I said so what is happened ? .. Then he began to cry and said the calm turned to storm burning my daughter at the age of eight months. Lunch turned to fire raged in my heart and the heart of her mother
We don't expect what is happened! , I was living in a small house with my wife and kids .
One day at two o'clock noon the fire erupted in our simple house, after I have lighten a candle to see what was covered by the dark in early hours in the day, the candle fill on the pink face of my baby to transfer it into darkness ..
This is one of the stories told by one of the citizens in the Gaza Strip after power and water cut lasted for more than ten days .. These novels and others that take place in the Gaza Strip due to the continuous interruptions of electricity.
In this context, Media Office at the Ministry of Interior knock the door to know the statistics that were processed during the last week by the civil defense followed to the Ministry of Interior
Lieutenant: Abdullah Al-Zahar, Director of Central Operations at Civil Defense, explained that the main reason for the outage is due to the unjust siege imposed by the occupation of the Gaza Strip years ago.
He added: "The interruption of diesel fuel supplied to the power plant, has led to a major crisis in the strip, as well as to the occurrence of increasingly fires due to the misuse of alternative materials for electricity".
He noted that the occurrence of continuously fires, led to launch awareness campaigns to make people aware of the risk of fire, and how to deal with alternative materials of electricity .
In turn , Assistant Khaled Sobh, operations officer in the civil defense, said that the statistical fires during the last week of the period 11/3 - 16/3 included 20 cases of fire, 7 cases of salvage, in addition to 30 medical cases were transported in ambulances of civil defense, and one injury after the Zionist bombing.
