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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Hamas hopes Amnesty report will translate into criminal prosecution


Ma'an
Amnesty International's report to the water situation in Palestine proves that "the Israeli occupation is stealing our resources," de facto Minister of Agriculture Mohammad Ramadan Al-Agha said Saturday.

...“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. Full story