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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro
Here's a link from Amnesty Int'l which describes the water situation. Many neutral bodies say the exact same thing.
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"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. In Gaza the Israeli blockade has made an already dire situation worse,” said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s researcher on Israel and the OPT.
In a new extensive report, Amnesty International revealed the extent to which Israel’s discriminatory water policies and practices are denying Palestinians their right to access to water.
Israel uses more than 80 per cent of the water from the Mountain Aquifer, the main source of underground water in Israel and the OPT, while restricting Palestinian access to a mere 20 per cent.
It has also imposed a complex system of permits which the Palestinians must obtain from the Israeli army and other authorities in order to carry out water-related projects in the OPT. Applications for such permits are often rejected or subject to long delays.
Restrictions imposed by Israel on the movement of people and goods in the OPT further compound the difficulties Palestinians face when trying to carry out water and sanitation projects."
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-u...water-20091027 |
Amnesty International is not a neutral body. They are a body that receives funding only if they can show they are working in an area where oppression is going on. They will go to great lengths to skew reports.
This report was also written in 2009. Since then the Israelis have allowed projects to be built directly by outside groups. The Palestinians usually opt against that option, instead wanting the funds to be given to them directly.