Israel 'cuts off water supply to West Bank' during month of fasting

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Ayman Rabi, the executive director of the Palestinian Hydrology Group, told Al Jazeera that in some areas people had not received water for more than 40 days.

He said: "People are relying on purchasing water from water trucks or finding it from alternative sources such as springs and other filling points in their vicinity.

"Families are having to live on two, three or 10 litres per capita per day."

Saleh Hijazi, Amnesty International's Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories researcher, said the reports were "alarming".

He told The Independent: "Israel already allows Palestinians access to only a fraction of the shared water resources in the occupied West Bank, with unlawful Israeli settlements getting almost unlimited water supplies which enable settlers to maintain lush gardens and even fill up numerous private swimming pools.

“Water is a basic need and a right. Mekorot should restore any water supplies to Palestinians it has cut off and the Israel authorities should end their discriminatory water policies, lifting all arbitrary restrictions it currently imposes on Palestinians’ access to this vital resource.”

According to UN guidelines, 7.5 litres per person per day is the minimum requirement under nornal conditions but in some areas of the Palestinian territories the minimum requirement is much higher.

Almost 200,000 Palestinians in the West Bank do not have access to running water, and require permission before collecting it themselves,according to a report by Amnesty International.

Since 1967, Israel has limited the water available to Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since its forces occupied the territories.

A spokesperson for the Israeli government told The Indepedent there is "no truth" in the claims, and said the shortages were down to faulty water lines.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/ramadan-2016-israel-water-west-bank-cuts-off-a7082826.html

 

 

Faulty water lines for 40 days? Do illegal settlements have faulty lines? Shameful. 

 

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Eating during daytime is a right too.

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Pathetic as per usual. 

Just now, Licq said:

Eating during daytime is a right too.

What ?  

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Just now, Licq said:

Eating during daytime is a right too.

 

And who is preventing you from eating?

What kind of inhumane reply. #RacistDaily

 

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As for Gaza I know that they are in a huge debts with water and electricity so they cut them off for a certain time.

I have no clue of what's going on in the West Bank, so good to know that, it's a shame, especially when the climate is very hot right now in the area + it's Ramadan..

But it's also important to know that in Israel the water companies are private so it's not directly an order from the shitty government but (need to check) I think the company that gives water to the west bank is owned by a settler so well.. you understand what's going on..