Palestine: Fuel Deliveries Limited
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
|
Israel this week resumed limited fuel deliveries
to the Gaza Strip, Mujahed Salama, director of Palestinian Petroleum Agency (PPA) said..
Salama said Nahal Oz fuel crossing in eastern Gaza city worked for a few
hours on Sunday to allow the reduced shipments into the Strip, receiving 84 tons
of cooking gas, 100,000 liters of vehicle diesel and 420,000 of industrial
diesel. The fuel now is stored at the Palestinian depots at the crossing, he said.
Salama said the fuel that the Palestinians owned can be distributed to
local gas stations, but the crisis still exists and the fuel shipments to Gaza
must go back to their natural levels.
Meanwhile, Mahmoud al-Shawa, director of the Petrol
Station Owners Association, said the 800,000 liters of diesel and
200,000 liters of Benzene will not solve the problem if they are
distributed. He said Gaza needs 5 million liters of diesel and
500,000 liters of Benzene to overcome the crisis.
Al-Shawa also criticized Hamas' mechanism of fuel distribution in Gaza, saying that
the policy is "reviving the black market" where the single liter of Benzene is
sold for 40 shekels instead of its 6.5 shekels official price.
According to current distribution policy, the service stations can not fill
any car unless the driver holds permission from Hamas which doesn't issue the
permission for cars without insurance policy or license.
PetrolWorld 090608 us$1 = 3.27
shekels
|
