Gazans Are Living Through a Yearlong Blackout NYT | Top Stories By: Liam Stack and Bilal Shbair 9 November 2024 at 18:00 Israel cut off electricity in the first days of the war, leaving Palestinians to light the dark with cellphones and to cook over open flames. © Haitham Imad/EPA, via ShutterstockA Palestinian family gathering around a fire on the roof of their destroyed house in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, in September.