Gaza Without Electricity: Residents Struggle to Survive as Power Grid Is Targeted
July 19, 2026As Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda @wizard_bisan1 continuously shows the world from the ground, living under military siege isn’t just about surviving the bombs—it’s about surviving the deliberate, calculated destruction of the infrastructure required to keep human beings alive.
Let’s be completely clear: when an occupying force intentionally targets an entire population’s electricity grid, it isn’t “collateral damage.” It is a war crime designed to enforce total civil collapse.
No electricity means incubators stop running, oxygen concentrators shut down, and field hospitals are forced to perform amputations under the light of smartphones.
Without power, water desalination plants and sewage pumps grind to a halt, forcing families to drink contaminated water, triggering mass outbreaks of disease.
Cutting the power grid is a deliberate tactic to silence journalists and clip the internet, ensuring the world cannot see the atrocities happening in the dark.
How much longer is the global community supposed to watch this engineered human catastrophe in silence?
Source: @mondoweiss
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Eight on, eight off. That’s when we were lucky. Most of the time it’s four on, 12 off. This was our electricity schedule in Gaza Strip was 17 years before. We have 24 hours off since October 2023. This is electricity needs average between 500 to 600MW. Yet Israel only allowed a third of that at last at best. That’s why Gaza spent so much in darkness in which unlocked lost their lives because of fires caused by kerosene lamps and candles. Gaza’s then were forced to rely on alternative energy sources, which were also restricted because of Israel’s blockade. And within years, some homes were partially depending on those dear energy sources. And that’s why also Israel started this genocide. It was bombing the top few solar panels to make sure that all aspects of life in Gaza are disabled. And since the destruction affected the sewing facilities in those stores besides the power plants, now people of Gaza realize only on the solar facilities solar panels that survived the bombing. Most of them are working here. And charging points, paid charging points.
