Displaced residents in al-Mawasi are making small wind generators from salvaged parts, as a joint assessment found more than 90% of Gaza’s electricity infrastructure destroyed by October 2025.
AFP reported Nov. 5 that former engineering student Kamal Al-Dabary built turbines using scooter motors and shaped old water tanks into blades. He fitted them with circuits assembled from recovered equipment. With batteries to keep a charge available, the system supports phone charging and basic appliances such as lights, fans and electric razors, AFP reported.
An APA Images video dated Oct. 29 documents residents working on similar devices. Its caption describes scrap metal and plastic being made into turbines and the equipment connected to tents.
EconoTimes has previously covered families using homemade wind turbines in Khan Yunis. Al-Dabary told AFP a solar panel cost at least 15,000 shekels, which the agency described as nearly $5,000. “We haven't had work or income for three years,” he said.
The World Bank, European Union and United Nations’ April 2026 joint assessment examined damage from October 2023 through October 2025. It estimated electricity-sector damage at about $565.3 million and found that 73 megawatts of Gaza’s 80 megawatts of installed solar capacity had been damaged.
The assessment counted 120 megawatts of electricity imports from Israel among the supplies halted early in the conflict. Fuel deliveries to Gaza’s power plant also stopped, and the report said consumers turned to rooftop solar and diesel generators. It pointed to damage from the 2014 and 2021 conflicts that the electricity system had yet to overcome.
