The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO) calls upon Palestinian concerned parties to carry on their responsibilities for Gaza's electricity crisis.

PNGO warns against the serious implications of the continued long power cuts in the besieged Gaza Strip on the health, water and sanitation as well as different productive sectors. Moreover, power cuts strongly affect thousands of families, mostly children, women and the elders, who live in caravans and uninhabitable houses under such extreme cold weather and suffering the lack of appropriate heating and lighting.

PNGO stress that citizens in the Gaza Strip endure complicated humanitarian, economic and social conditions as consequences of the Israeli occupation offensives and continuous blockade and weak funding. PNGO also reminds the responsible parties in the Gaza Strip and West Bank of their legal, political and ethical responsibilities towards Gaza's electricity crisis. This crisis and its repercussions must prompt all the concerned parties to exert their utmost efforts to help Gaza population to avoid undergoing additional sufferings.

PNGO also condemns the arrest of a number of citizens in Gaza by security forces based on exercising their right to freedom of expression: arrested citizens called for or participated in the protests against the electricity outages.

PNGO demands immediate release for arrested citizens and calls for full enjoyment of the freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression for all Gaza citizens.