Palestinian workers - Bethlehem checkpoint (Ahmad al-Bazz - ActiveStills) Ali Harb Al-Jazeera / November 5, 2021 Israel has threatened rolling power cuts in the Palestinian territory amid ‘acute’ financial downturn. The Palestinian Authority’s finances are at a “breaking point”, a United Nations official warned on October 20th. But that didn’t stop Israel’s state-owned electric company from reportedly threatening a week later to cut power to the occupied West Bank if the PA didn’t pay $120m in overdue bills. The threat to plunge Palestine into darkness is a recurring one, but it has renewed focus on the increasingly dire state of...