70% of Gaza’s electricity grid destroyed in Israeli war: Report

Officials in the Gaza Strip, which has come under a hugely deadly and devastating Israeli war, have reportedly said that the occupying regime’s aggression has so far destroyed 70 percent of the coastal sliver’s electricity grid.

The Palestinian Information Center news agency carried the report on Wednesday, citing a statement by the head of the Palestinian Energy Authority, Jalal Ismail.

Ismail said the damage afflicted to the territory’s electricity transmission and distribution network had so far amounted to over $80 million.

“Ismail highlighted in previous remarks published in the wake of the aggression that the Israeli goal is cutting off all sources of power in Gaza to make it an uninhabitable place,” the report stated.

Even before the war, the electricity grid would provide less than half of Gaza’s average electricity needs, which under normal circumstances stands at 550 megawatts.