“Climate change is a human rights issue. Nowhere is this clearer than in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), where land and natural resources required for climate adaptation are controlled by Israel, and systematically denied to Palestinians. Of all these resources, none are more vital than water.”
Adapting to climate change under ‘water apartheid’
Palestinian girl freshens up at natural spring, Battir village, Bethlehem district, Palestine (Photo: David Kattenburg)