Clearly, you can't make this stuff up.

Gazans yearn for a port on their shoreline.  But Israelis say this would pose a security problem.  The Israeli Minister of Transportation Israel Katz is instead proposing that the international community coughs up $5 billion to build an artificial island a few miles off the coast of Gaza to supply its residents with water and electricity while keeping them imprisoned and Israel in control.  Apparently some members of the Trump administration think this idea might be part of a renewed "peace process." 

In new vid, Israeli minister promotes Gaza island plan

 

A screenshot from the Gaza Artificial Island Initiative released June 28, 2017 by the Intelligence Ministry headed by Yisrael Katz.

Palestine: Where Water is not a Human Right

Although this article is a year old, we are posting it because it gives a good background with helpful graphics about how Israel uses water to make Palestinians' lives as difficult as possible.

"By building on the myth of a water-scarce region - Ramallah has more rainfall than London - Israel has deliberately denied Palestinians control over their water resources and successfully set the ground for water domination, granting itself a further tool to exercise its hegemony over the occupied population and territory." Read more here...

Israel: Water as a tool to dominate Palestinians

Since Israel took over the West Bank in 1967, Israel has remained in near full control over Palestinian water resources in the West Bank. [ibrahim/Getty images]

A Health and Ecological Catastrophe for the 2 million people of Gaza

This article outlines the affects of the power crisis in Gaza on the people, hospitals, the potential of the spread of infectious disease, and hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of raw sewage flowing into the sea daily.

Gaza's ticking sewage bomb

A boy looks at Palestinians as they ride a horse cart on a street flooded with sewage water from a sewage treatment facility in Gaza City, Gaza, Nov. 14, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)

Life nearly Unbearable

"Gaza’s power plant shut down entirely in April this year, and Israel further reduced electricity supply to Gaza this week – a violation of international humanitarian law, according to human rights groups. Electricity is currently available fewer than three hours per day.

One of the results – among others profoundly affecting daily life in Gaza – is that there is not enough power to run sewage treatment facilities in the territory. Desalination plants, which provide most of Gaza’s drinking water, are also operating at significantly reduced capacity."

Life in a Septic Tank

 A flooded quarter in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp, February 2017. Gaza’s beleaguered sewage system is overwhelmed during heavy rains, causing flooding and forcing families to evacuate from their homes.   Anne Paq/ActiveStills