OUTRAGE

Israeli journalist Amira Hass is outraged:

"Of all the Israeli methods of removing Palestinians from their land in order to allocate it to Jews from Israel and the Diaspora, the policy of water deprivation is the cruelest. And these are the main points of this policy: Israel does not recognize the right of all the human beings living under its control to equal access to water and to quantities of water. On the contrary. It believes in the right of the Jews as lords and masters to far greater quantities of water than the Palestinians. It controls the water sources everywhere in the country, including in the West Bank. It carries out drilling in the West Bank and draws water in the occupied territory, and transfers most of it to Israel and the settlements." For more:

Opinion//Under Israeli Occupation, Water is a Luxury

Water pipes cut by the Israeli military in the village of Khalet al-Daba, February 17, 2019. Photo Credit: Eliyahu Hershkovitz

Please Read This

“Israel’s targeting of agricultural, water and energy infrastructures in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has had dire impacts on human welfare and livelihoods in both locations, a new report by researchers at Duke University and the University of New Hampshire shows.

The report is based on an original database that identifies 982 incidents between 2006 and 2017 in which Israeli forces, agencies or settlers damaged, destroyed, disabled or restricted access to sites and structures that provided food, clean water and other essential services to Palestinians.”

STUDY SAYS ATTACKS ON INFRASTRUCTURE IN GAZA AND WEST BANK EXACT A HUMAN COST

A young Palestinian walks through a debris-strewn field in Gaza where attacks have damaged much of the civilian infrastructure.
(Credit: UNEP)

Yes: The question is WHY?

Israelis destroy water pipes to Palestinian villages paid for by Europeans. “I asked why they demolished the water lines,” Nidal Younes recalled. He said one of the Border Police officers answered him, in English, telling him it was done "to replace Arabs with Jews." Read more here about use of water as an ethnic cleansing weapon:

Why Doesn’t Israel want Palestinians to have running water?

Younes (right) and al-Raba’i with what remains of the water pipes. February 17, 2019. Photo Credit: Eliyahu Hershkovitz

Water used as a Weapon to Ethnically Cleanse the West Bank

Israeli forces destroy water pipelines south of Hebron