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Economy

Gaza’s Palestinians, Besieged by Israel, turn to Solar Power

Juan Cole 03/24/2014

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Here’s an excellent AFP film clip and article from a couple weeks ago that I think deserves a wider audience.

Gazans turn to solar power as fuel crisis bites (via AFP)

On the roof of Gaza City’s children’s hospital, a pristine row of solar panels gleams in the sunlight, an out-of-place symbol of modern, clean energy in the impoverished Strip. As the coastal Palestinian territory lives through the worst fuel shortage…

 

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AFP: Gazans turn to solar power as fuel crisis bites

Filed Under: Economy, Energy, Environment, Israel/ Palestine, Palestine

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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