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Good evening and welcome to Navarra Live.

My name's Stephen Methan. And tonight I'm joined by Helena,

aka No Justice MTG. Helena, it's been a little while. How are you?

It has been quite a while since we've shared the stage together. I'm not doing to, but I just had

some lovely jam donuts and I'm looking forward to the show tonight. My favourite, actually.

Coming up tonight, Labour have chosen to fund warfare over welfare, and Reform UK are in the

middle of their own civil war. Stay tuned for all of that. Israel has cut off electricity

to Gaza. We don't yet know the full extent of the impact of Israel's decision to deprive

Palestinians of electricity,

but we do know that the last facility in Gaza still receiving power from the Israel Electric Corporation,

Dai al-Bala's desalination plant, has been cut off. For now, it's running on solar panels and generators,

and can only produce around one-seventh as much clean water as it could

with mains electricity. The facility has some fuel stored, but when that runs out, it will be

entirely reliant on solar power. Around half a million Palestinians in Gaza are completely

reliant on the plant for clean drinking water. UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, said this.

Genocide alert. Israel cutting off electricity supplies to Gaza means, among others, no functioning desalination

stations, ergo no clean water. Still no sanctions, no arms embargo against Israel, means amongst

others aiding and assisting Israel in the commission of one of the most preventable genocides of our history.

Now, Human Rights Watch previously accused Israel of committing acts of genocide by deliberately blocking access to clean water in Gaza.

Acting Israel and Palestine director Bill Van Esfeld told Al Jazeera the following.

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