GAZA (PIC)– The union of fuel companies in Gaza accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah of being behind the stifling fuel crisis that has afflicted the besieged Strip for two weeks after it refrained from paying the Israeli company for the fuel shipments.
“The petroleum authority and the finance ministry in Ramallah did not assume their role in communicating with the Israeli supplier of fuel to provide the Gaza Strip with the requested amounts” head of the union Mahmoud Al-Shawwa said.
“The finance ministry in Ramallah claims that it has a cash crunch and thus is unable to pay the Israeli company although we funnel all funds to it on a regular basis” Shawwa added.
In a related context Awraq news network disclosed an official document proving that the PA had sold the remaining Qatari fuel aid sent to Gaza to the Egyptian authorities.
The network published a letter sent on the first of January 2014 by PA ambassador in Cairo Barakat Al-Farra to head of the Egyptian petroleum authority in which the former offered the Egyptian side to buy what remained of the fuel aid which Qatar had sent in April 2012 to the Gaza power plant.
Qatar had sent several months ago fuel shipments to Gaza through port Suez but the Egyptian authorities had allowed only a few amount of this fuel aid into Gaza.
The leaked document also showed that Al-Farra expressed his readiness to receive any check payment suggested by the Egyptian side for the remaining diesel shipments held at port Suez.
