Gaza – Interior Ministry
The ongoing fuel crisis in the transportation sector dramatically Influenced in the Gaza Strip, where it extended to impact negatively to the movement of people, especially among university students and staff always bound by the times of work.
Where a citizen in the sector take a long time in the waiting vehicle to transfer him to the place want to go to it, in light of the lack of the number of vehicles that run on-line, while some passengers are forced to wire two routes to reach their goal, which cost them extra pay.
Vehicle owners attribute the reason to the acute shortage of diesel fuel and gasoline, which are used in the operation of vehicles, and are falling from the Egyptian side through the tunnels, in time to prevent it to enter through the Kerem Shalom crossing by (Israel).
A student Nesma Labib, who studies at the Faculty of Commerce at the Islamic University, is forced with her colleague to wake up unusually early; so that they reach the university on time, because they passing exams.
She says, for "internal website", in this regard: "almost a week ago and I kept telling waking up at five o'clock in the morning; so that I could access to the university at eight o'clock in the morning, I passed the quarterly exams." Noting that she goes sometimes an hour or more waiting in a car transfer her to the university.
University student Labib called the Egyptian side to respond to the appeals of the residents of the Gaza Strip by providing them the necessary fuel to power vehicles and electricity generating station, as well as the government in Gaza to allocate buses to transport students in order to preserve their studies.
Where ,the employee Abdul Hamid, who works in a distribution company "Internet" in Gaza is no different from his predecessor, he also late for work because of the current crisis and sometimes forced to be absent.
Abdul Hamid forced to work extra hours to make up for hours delay, where he says: "I work in a private company and is concerned with providing services to its subscribers, the head of the company may turn a blind tip for being late for work in the morning for a day or two, but that extends it for more than two weeks, it rejected , and asked us to delay the work to compensate for the deficit. "
And renewed the fuel problem in Gaza more than three weeks, while preventing the smuggling of fuel from Egypt through the tunnels of the strip; pretext of maintaining the Egyptian economy.
Despite frequent talk of near solving the fuel crisis in the Gaza Strip entered from the Egyptian side through the crossings in a formal way, but the endeavors have not been until this moment any concrete results on the ground.
Citizens line up and taxis in long queues and extended in front of gas stations, and many of them carry 'gallons' hands to fill and save time and effort.
Also, the driverFayes Kateebfrom Khan Younis, staying a long hours in front of the gas station to get a few liters of diesel fuel, pointing out that what bothered him in the topic he is committed to connect some workers every morning to their work, and that it is now unable to implement what was agreed with them, which will affect on his future work.
He stressed that Khan Yunis city like other provinces experiencing a crisis in transportation, what the impact on the movement of citizens and students.
