{"id":9755,"date":"2025-07-18T11:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/?p=9755"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:05:31","slug":"no-truth-to-reports-of-power-outages-in-areas-of-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/no-truth-to-reports-of-power-outages-in-areas-of-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"No truth to reports of power outages in areas of West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Information<\/a> circulating on social media reads: \u201cIsrael informs the Palestinian Authority of its intention to begin cutting off electricity to various areas of the West Bank beginning next week due to the PA\u2019s accumulated debts to the Israeli Electric Corporation, estimated at half a billion shekels.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n

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One source of the claim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Kashif verified the information and found it to be fabricated. It contacted the head of the Palestinian Energy and Natural Resources Authority, Engineer Ayman Ismail, who denied the accuracy of the circulating information, stressing that “the Energy Authority has not received any official notification or threat from the Israeli company to cut off the electricity supply. He emphasized that this news is completely false and aims to unjustifiably raise concerns among citizens.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kashif also found that\u00a0the circulated text<\/a>\u00a0was previously published verbatim by a group of social media accounts on 27 October 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Previous publication of the circulating text<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n


Iran launched a missile attack<\/a>\u00a0on Monday morning, 23 June 2025,\u00a0targeting several locations, three in the south and one in the north. The Israeli Electric Corporation announced that a strategic facility belonging to it in the south had been hit, and reported disruptions to electricity supply following the bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Palestinian Ministry of Finance<\/a>\u00a0had explained in a statement issued in January of this year that it had reached understandings to release a portion of the withheld Palestinian funds. The basic principles of the agreement stipulated that 767 million shekels of the funds deposited in Norway would be used to pay fuel costs to Israeli fuel companies, and a similar amount would be used to settle the arrears owed to the Israeli Electricity Company by Palestinian distribution companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement indicated that the value of Israeli deductions from clearance revenues due to electricity debts accruing to distribution companies and local authorities until 2024 amounted to approximately 1.6 billion shekels, while the total annual deductions on electricity debts since 2012 amounted to approximately 12.5 billion shekels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources of Claim<\/td>Sources of Verification <\/td><\/tr>
I love you, Jerusalem.<\/a>

News and conditions of roads and crossings in Jerusalem. Kafr Aqab \/ Qalandia Crossing.<\/a>

Palestine, up close. <\/a><\/td>

Chairman of the Palestinian Energy and Natural Resources Authority, Engineer Ayman Ismail

Fajer TV Al- 
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Jazira<\/a>

Palestinian News and Information Agency – WAFA<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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