Palestine in Pictures

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They regularly publish “Palestine in Pictures.” We share the three water-related photos below from July.

The Electric Intifada: Palestine in Pictures: July 2019.

Palestinians enjoy the sunset over the Mediterranean Sea on the Gaza City coast on 14 July.

Mahmoud AjjourAPA images

A Palestinian man pours water on his son during a heatwave at the outskirts of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on 17 July.

Ashraf AmraAPA images

Palestinians argue with soldiers as Israeli occupation authorities demolish water wells in the so-called Area C of the West Bank city of Hebron on 16 July. Palestinians in Area C — the 60 percent of the West Bank under full Israeli military rule — are not allowed to build infrastructure without a permit, which are almost never issued by occupation authorities.

Mashhoor WahwahWAFA

Water Injustice: A Report from the International Solidarity Movement

“Israel is escalating its war on water in the South Hebron Hills, demolishing wells, ripping out kilometres of pipeline and even confiscating trucks carrying emergency water tanks to parched villages.

In the sweltering month of July, five demolitions targeting water infrastructure were carried out, leaving Palestinian farming villages without access to water.”

Tariq Hathaleen told the International Solidarity Movement (ISM): “Because the Civil Administration don’t have a direct excuse to expel those people from their land but the plan is to put more pressure to make them leave by cutting their water sources.”

ISM Water Series: ‘There’s no law in the world that says you can cut water from humans.’

A village elder is detained while trying to protect water sources on July 4.

"Colonialism and Environmental Destruction

“But what Israel has now identified as a “national security problem” is indeed a disaster of its own making. The occupation, colonization, dispossession, and aggression against Palestine and the Palestinians have caused so much environmental damage that now even the Israeli occupier is suffering.”

Read this important article:

Israel’s ‘Environmental Crisis’ Is of Its Own Making

Israel’s blockade prevents Palestinians in Gaza from building waste recycling plants.

Yes, "the impossible-to-get permit in Area C"

“A large unit of Israeli forces, accompanied by bulldozers and other heavy machinery, raided the area and demolished a 4,500 cubic meter pool owned by local resident Ziad Jaabari, and used for the irrigation of fields and crops in the area, under the pretext that it was built in Area C of the occupied West Bank, which is under full Israeli military rule.”

Irrigation Pool Demolished by Israeli Forces in Southern West Bank