Palestinian finance minister Estaphan Salameh on Wednesday floated a slate of proposals to deal with a severe fuel crisis in the occupied West Bank, including the creation of a public petrol company.
For nearly two weeks, scenes of cars lined up at petrol stations have become ubiquitous throughout the West Bank, as stations struggle to provide the three million litres of fuel that the Palestinian territory consumes daily.
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AFP journalists have reported Palestinians filling up water bottles in order to get stranded, out-of-gas cars moving again.
Shared taxis, which effectively serve as the West Bank’s public transportation system, have threatened to stop operations altogether.
