Reduction of Iranian Gas Supplied to Iraq Leads to Power System Loss

People crossing a bridge over the Tigris River as the sunsets in Baghdad on June 19, 2021. (AP)
People crossing a bridge over the Tigris River as the sunsets in Baghdad on June 19, 2021. (AP)
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Reduction of Iranian Gas Supplied to Iraq Leads to Power System Loss

People crossing a bridge over the Tigris River as the sunsets in Baghdad on June 19, 2021. (AP)
People crossing a bridge over the Tigris River as the sunsets in Baghdad on June 19, 2021. (AP)

Iraq's electricity ministry said on Tuesday that Iranian gas supplied to the central region was reduced from 30 million to 20 million cubic meters per day, while that supplied to the southern region was reduced from 17 million to 5 million cubic meters per day.

The ministry added, in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that the reduction in Iranian gas supplies led the national power system to lose about 2,600 megawatts.

The ministry said it is coordinating with the oil ministry on a high level to compensate for what the system has lost so as to not affect the sustainability of production momentum, INA reported.



Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill At Least 17

Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill At Least 17

Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israeli tank and drone strikes in Gaza on Wednesday killed at least 17 people, according to hospital staff and Associated Press journalists who counted the bodies.

In Khan Younis in the south, nine bodies, among them a woman and child, were rushed to Nasser Hospital. Meanwhile, the Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah received eight bodies.

The strikes in Deir al-Balah come as the Israeli military called for Palestinians in some parts of the central city to evacuate.

The UN humanitarian office has warned that mass evacuation orders by the Israeli military this month are pushing Palestinians into overcrowded and unsafe areas along the Gaza coast.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters that the latest orders issued Wednesday for part of Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis affect 115 sites with more than 150,000 displaced men, women and children, including UN and many informal and makeshift shelters.

The orders also impact offices, warehouses and residences of the United Nations and humanitarian organizations, and have made three water wells serving tens of thousands of people inaccessible, he said.