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Is Israel Weaponizing Water in Palestine? Watch this video by Al Jezeera English
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Decades of Israeli occupation have left Palestinians struggling to access clean water. Israel controls a majority of the freshwater resources in the occupied West Bank. And in Gaza, its 16-year blockade and military operations have had a devastating effect on the water supply. Monitoring groups say about 97 percent of the water supply in Gaza is contaminated and unfit for human consumption. Gaza’s only freshwater source, the Coastal Aquifer, cannot meet demand and has been depleted by overextraction and contaminated by sewage. Rising temperatures and sea levels are only making life more difficult, while in Israel, residents do not have to worry about the taps running dry. People and Power examines this growing disparity. Thumbnail image: Reuters
US Shift in Rhetoric Isolates Israel, But Can It Prevent the Invasion of Rafah?
Today the United States finally decided not to obstruct a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan.
The resolution, which was drafted by the 10 elected members of the UN Security Council, demands a lasting and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. It was passed with 14 votes in favor and the U.S. abstaining. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield explained that the U.S. abstained because “We did not agree with everything with the resolution.”
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the long-awaited resolution “must be implemented,” adding, “failure would be unforgivable.” The French ambassador to the UN Security Council Nicolas de Riviere told the session, “It is high time now for the council to finally contribute to finding a solution.”
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Rather, the change has likely come about as a result of domestic political considerations in an election year. The massive civil society mobilization against Israel’s genocide and, most importantly, the Democratic Party’s sudden realization that President Biden’s stance on Israel has alienated his base and hurt his reelection prospects — especially in key states such as Michigan, home to one of the U.S.’s largest Muslim and Arab American communities who feel betrayed over Biden’s complicity in Israel’s war — is what is really behind the administration’s reluctant and sudden change in U.S. policy