EU to resume Gaza fuel aid after days of blackouts

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2007

GAZA CITY (AFP) — The European Union said it will resume financing fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip's sole power plant on Wednesday, after five days of blackouts in the impoverished Palestinian territory.

The EU suspended its funding for the plant -- which provides about 25 percent of electricity in the coastal territory -- over fears that the radical Islamist Hamas movement would benefit from the aid.

The European Commission said it will "resume Wednesday, on a provisional basis, deliveries of fuel to the Gaza power plant" but warned that it will take further action if an EU-Palestinian audit team monitoring the aid is concerned about where the money is going.

"The important thing is to get this fuel delivered again as quickly as possible, but in the...