“Indeed total water control was one of the first policies enacted by Israel after the establishment of the military regime following the occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip in June 1967. Israel’s discriminatory policies – its uses and abuses of Palestinian water resources – can be described as ‘water apartheid’.”
Access to clean water is a human right, so why is Palestine an exception?
Palestinian children fill plastic bottles and water containers with drinking water from a public tap in Jabilia in the northern Gaza Strip. Ashraf Amra/Aplmages