Israeli forces on Tuesday destroyed water spring pipelines in the village of Duma, south of Nablus city, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Suleiman Dawabsheh, the head of the Duma village council, said that […]
Jordan is to buy water from Israel in a bid to ease shortages in the country, the Middle East Monitor reported on Thursday, citing Jordan media. Jordanian Minister of Water and Irrigation Mohammed Al-Najjar explained […]
Israeli authorities have prevented drinking water from being available at the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), a Palestinian official said on Sunday. According to the director of the mosque, […]
A water well, which has been benefiting hundreds of Palestinian farmers, was destroyed on Monday by the Israeli occupation forces in the village of Ras Atiyeh, near Qalqilya, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. […]
“The water is back,” one family member would announce in a mix of excitement and panic, often very late at night. The moment such an announcement was made, my whole family would start running in […]
The Gaza Strip’s underground water supply is facing a massive crisis from rising salinity levels and pollution, Anadolu news agency has reported. “There is a continuous, high rate fall in the underground water level in […]
There is an ongoing, but hidden, Israeli war on the Palestinians which is rarely highlighted or even known. It is a water war, which has been in the making for decades. On July 26 and […]
A study released today by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Palestinian Water Authority suggests that only four percent of households in the Gaza Strip have access to safely managed water, compared […]
Israeli occupation forces today demolished a Palestinian house that was under construction and a water well in the village of Bani Naim in Hebron (Al-Khalil). According to a Wafa correspondent, Israeli soldiers raided the area […]
Jewish settlers today vandalized the electronic panel that controls the water supply to the village of Asira al-Qibliya, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Ghassan Daghlas, an […]
A sharp rise in demolitions in the West Bank has endangered Palestinians’ access to water, UNICEF and water sanitation charity WASH revealed in a new report on Monday, adding that it highlighted the dire human […]
Jewish settlers stole Palestinian water in the West Bank village of Madama, near Nablus, on Wednesday, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlers’ activities in the north of the West […]
Israeli armored tanks last night destroyed a water pipe serving Palestinian communities in the northern Jordan Valley region, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Derar Sawafta, member of the […]
Last week, the Palestinian Water Authority blasted Israel for significantly reducing the amount of water allotted to the West Bank. “We are facing this crisis as we enter the summer season, a time of the […]
Israeli occupation forces yesterday announced the destruction of ten wells in the town of Az-Zawiya, west of Salfit in the north of the West Bank, according to the Palestinian News agency WAFA. Local sources told WAFA […]
Israeli forces today destroyed pipelines that were supplying the northern Jordan Valley village of Bardala with irrigation water. Ziad Sawafta, deputy mayor of Bardala village council, told WAFA that Israeli forces regularly destroy the pipes […]
A United States representative visited a village in the occupied West Bank Tuesday, where he witnessed the Israeli government denying local residents access to water. Democratic Representative Andy Levin visited the Palestinian village of Susiya, south […]
Israeli forces seized a water network used for irrigating grape trees in the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley, according to local activist Aref Daraghmeh. Human Rights Violation: Israeli forces and Israeli Civil Administration […]
Up to 850 Palestinians from the village of Marda in the northern West Bank were infected by organisms in polluted water between Monday and Wednesday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has revealed. Access to Clean […]
Free access to clean water is a basic human right. This is not just a common-sense assertion, but also a binding legal commitment enshrined in international law. In November 2002, the UN Committee on Economic, […]
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