A Turkish firm is awaiting Israeli approval to send a 100-megawatt floating power plant to Palestine, the Turkish energy minister has said.
Palestinians suffer from severe electricity shortages after Israeli attacks destroyed the territory’s energy infrastructure in 2006.
“Turkey will build power plants in Palestine in the long term, but as a quick solution, Turkey will send a 100-megawatt power-generating ship from Basra to Gaza offshore through the private sector in about two to three months,” Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said.
The minister said, however, that Israeli occupation should first lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip to allow power to be delivered to the city.
“This can only be realised if the blockade’s energy aspect is eased,” he said, noting that both the arrival of the ship and the delivery of 220,000 tons of fuel needed to be exempted from the country’s eight-year blockade on the Gaza Strip.
In the medium and long term Turkey is willing to help Palestine on the reconstruction of transmission lines, technical equipment, transmitters, transformer and poles as well as the creation of a master plan by lending engineering and material support.
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