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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