This prompts a question: Why were the lights still on at all in Gaza? Gazans chose Hamas as their government and have never indicated they would choose otherwise in the 19 years since. Hamas runs all of the institutions, and controls all the resources and people. When Hamas launched their war with massive genocidal atrocities on October 7, Gazans celebrated as though they had already won the war — and keep attending Hamas rallies in droves.
The news yesterday is less that Israel is flexing its muscle by cutting off electricity to Gaza, but that they had been supplying it to their enemies for the past eighteen months at all:
Energy Minister Eli Cohen on Sunday instructed the Israel Electric Corporation to immediately cut off the supply of electricity to the Gaza Strip, in an apparent bid to pile pressure on the enclave, where 24 hostages presumed to be…
