Israel hits Gaza's only power plant

"The power plant will stop operation following the attack on the fuel depot," Fathi Al-Sheikh, the deputy head of Gaza's power authority, told Anadolu Agency.

He said that damage in the power plant might take "a whole year" to repair.

Even before the shutdown, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip only had electricity for about three hours a day because fighting had damaged power lines.

Gaza's power plant resumed operations in mid-December following seven weeks of closure due to shortages of the fuel needed to operate it.

Gaza's power plant requires some 650,000 liters of diesel fuel for its daily operations.

Gaza receives 120 megawatts of electricity from Israel each day and buys a further 28 megawatts from Egypt, according to the Gaza Energy Authority.