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| The EU has said it will resume paying for fuel shipments to the only power plant in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday on a provisional basis. | The EU has said it will resume paying for fuel shipments to the only power plant in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday on a provisional basis. |
| The bloc cut off funding on Thursday because of concerns over plans by the Islamist group Hamas, which controls Gaza, to tax electricity bills. | The bloc cut off funding on Thursday because of concerns over plans by the Islamist group Hamas, which controls Gaza, to tax electricity bills. |
| A senior Hamas leader denied his group had any such tax plans, and said assurances had been sent to the EU. | A senior Hamas leader denied his group had any such tax plans, and said assurances had been sent to the EU. |
| The row left hundreds of thousands of Palestinians without electricity. | The row left hundreds of thousands of Palestinians without electricity. |
| In a statement, the EU said it would resume paying for the Gaza Generating Company's fuel supplies after receiving assurances that its officials would have greater oversight. | |
| "In agreement with the Palestinian Authority, the [European] Commission will resume Wednesday, on a provisional basis, deliveries of fuel to the Gaza power plant," it said. | |
| Earlier, the former Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya, said the decision to withdraw funding amounted to collective punishment for the people of Gaza. |