Israel cuts off electricity supply to Gaza, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water | 9 March 2025 | Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza, officials said Sunday, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory. Hamas called it part of Israel's "starvation policy." Israel last week suspended supplies of goods to the territory of more than two million Palestinians, an echo of the siege it imposed in the earliest days of the war.Israel is pressing the militant group to accept an extension of the first phase of their ceasefire... The letter from Israel's energy minister to the Israel Electric Corporation tells it to stop selling power to Gaza. [Sounds like a war crime to me.]