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]