Electric Company Head: I'd Cut Off the Power to Gaza

If the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) was a private company, it would have cut off the supply to Gaza a long time ago, the company’s director claimed on Tuesday, according to NRG/Maariv.

The comments by Yiftah Ron-Tal were made during a discussion in the Knesset’s Finance Committee, during which he revealed that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has accumulated a debt to the IEC of close to 1.4 billion shekels.

"If an ordinary citizen would not pay his electricity bill, we would disconnect him within a week,” said Ron-Tal.

 “In this case, despite the immense financial debt that we have accumulated, we are obligated to continue to provide electricity to the PA. The Israeli regime owns our company and it has to make a decision on the matter.We must collect this debt,” he added, noting that the PA has ignored repeated requests to pay its debts.