Five-year-old Mohammad al-Sayis died in hospital after ingesting contaminated water while swimming in the sea. His brothers were also hospitalised, but recovered. Mohammad’s father Ahmad told local news: “It’s hot and humid and there is no power, water or fans in the house. The sea is our only outlet."Locals in Gaza are used to having reduced electricity. But the normal rate of five to six hours of electricity a day was reduced even further when Gaza’s sole power plant ran out of fuel in April 2017 after it used up its fuel stocks, which had been purchased with money lent by Turkey and Qatar.Political tensions between the Hamas government, who seized control of Gaza in 2007, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have exacerbated the problem. Abbas further slashed electricity supply to Gaza in May and June 2017 when he refused to pay for a supply coming from Israel. Later that month, Egypt agreed to provide some fuel in an attempt to stave off the crisis, but it is not sufficient to meet the territory’s requirements for power.