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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Amnesty: Israel denying Palestinians' water rights

Ma'an
Israel is denying Palestinians the right to sufficient water through discriminatory policies, the human rights group Amnesty International said in a report released on Tuesday.

“Israel allows the Palestinians access to only a fraction of the shared water resources, which lie mostly in the occupied West Bank, while the unlawful Israeli settlements there receive virtually unlimited supplies,” said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty’s researcher on Israel and the Palestinian territories in a statement.

“In Gaza the Israeli blockade has made an already dire situation worse,” she added.

...Some 180,000-200,000 Palestinians living in rural communities have no access to running water and the Israeli army often prevents them from even collecting rainwater.

“In contrast, Israeli settlers, who live in the West Bank in violation of international law, have intensive-irrigation farms, lush gardens and swimming pools,” Amnesty said in a statement announcing the release of the report. Full story

Amnesty Report



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