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<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210236#.VwEjEvmLSUk">Despite huge PA debt, Israel returns power to Jericho</a></h1>
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<span style="color: #737172; font-family: "georgia";">PA still owes Israel $450 million for electricity, but Israel Electric Corporation returns power anyway.</span>
<i>By Arutz Sheva Staff
First Publish: 4/3/2016, 3:23 PM</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) has restored full power supply to the Palestinian Authority (PA) city of Jericho in Judea to the east of Jerusalem <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210138" style="color: #046eb9; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">after reducing it</a> over an enormous outstanding debt, officials said Sunday.</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The cut last Thursday led to blackouts, but full supply was restored later the same day, according to Mansour Nassar of the Palestinian Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JDECO).</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">IEC had reduced supply to Jericho over a debt of 1.7 billion shekels ($450 million, 397 million euros) owed by the private JDECO and the PA. While that massive debt has yet to be paid, Israel nevertheless decided to return full power.</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">An Israeli official said supply was reduced by half, while JDECO said it had been cut by two-thirds.</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Israeli official said the IEC could at any point renew the cut. It was not clear why Israel decided to restore power after the brief cut.</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Thursday's cut had affected up to 30,000 people of a total population of around 50,000 in the city and surrounding area, according to Jericho governor Majed al-Fityani.</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The PA is struggling financially amid <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199737" style="color: #046eb9; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">widespread corruption</a>, and depends largely on foreign aid to prop it up. It relies heavily on Israel for electricity supplies, which also provides electricity to Hamas-controlled Gaza.</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Ongoing talks with the IEC and PA have so far not resolved the debt problem.</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">In January 2015, the IEC cut power to PA cities for a number of hours every day over a similar debt, only to renew it a few weeks later after the US State Department <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/191757" style="color: #046eb9; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">criticized the move</a>.</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Some Israeli leaders <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/189462" style="color: #046eb9; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">have suggested</a> using tax money collected by Israel for the PA to pay off the massive debt.</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Under an economic agreement signed with the PA in 1994 amid the Oslo Accords, Israel collects around 600-700 million shekels each month in customs duties levied on goods destined for Palestinian markets that transit through Israeli ports.</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">It transfers the money after deducting approximately 100 million shekels for expenses such as Palestinian hospitalizations in Israel, sewage treatment and covering part of the electricity debt.</span>
<em><span style="font-size: x-small;">AFP contributed to this report.</span></em></div>
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