the Gaza Strip reduced their output from 120 to 112 megawatts.”228 This reduction will most probably further deteriorate the humanitarian situation in Gaza, and reduce even more the already scarce services being provided. Considering its extensive control in Gaza and its role as an occupying power, Israel is ultimately responsible for ensuring the well-being of the occupied population in the Strip and providing an adequate electricity supply. The latest cut to the electricity supply, therefore, constitutes a violation of Israel’s obligations as an occupying power. Unrecognized Villages There are currently over 200,000 Palestinians living in the Naqab, in southern Israel. Out of those, approximately 80,000 live in 39 villages that were strategically left out of Israel’s national Master Plan in the late 1960s229 rendering them ‘unrecognized.’ This status has effectively slated the populations of these villages for displacement, as unrecognized villages are deemed illegal under Israel’s 1965 Planning and Building Law; not only are they threatened with demolition but they are not eligible for services.230 As a result, these villages lack basic service infrastructure, government services and utilities, including schools and medical centers. They are also prohibited from connecting to electricity, telecommunication and water networks.231 The Israeli Planning and Building Law specifically states that homes built without a license cannot be connected to the water, electricity or telephone networks, effectively leaving all inhabitants of unrecognized villages without any of these fundamental services.232 Children in these villages have no kindergartens or schools, which forces families to send their children to schools in some recognized villages, often far distances, to access education. In addition to that, there is no municipal authority that governs these villages, 228 Ibid. 229 Human Rights Watch, Off the Map: Land and Housing Rights Violations in Israel’s Unrecognized Bedouin Villages, 30 March 2008, available at: https://www.hrw.org/report/2008/03/30/map/ land-and-housing-rights-violations-israels-unrecognized-bedouin-villages [accessed 22 August 2017] [hereinafter HRW, Off the Map]; Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), “Negev Bedouins and Unrecognized Villages”, n.d., available at: http://www.acri.org.il/en/category/arab-citizens-of-israel/ negev-bedouins-and-unrecognized-villages/ [accessed 22 August 2017]. 230 BADIL, Forced Population Transfer: The Case of Palestine, Discriminatory Zoning and Planning, (Bethlehem, 2014), 19, available at: http://www.badil.org/phocadownloadpap/badil-new/ publications/research/working-papers/wp17-zoninig-plannig-en.pdf [hereinafter BADIL, FPT: Zoning and Planning]. 231 HRW, Off the Map, supra note 229. 232 Ibid. 64