How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon

This week, Israel demolished a community clinic and emergency housing in a village in the Jordan Valley that were designated to deal with the coronavirus outbreak. 

This week, Israeli officials seized materials needed to form two tents for a field clinic, two for a mosque, and four for emergency housing for people evacuated from their homes—and confiscated a generator, sand, cement, and cinder blocks for the floor of the tents.

Israel’s military rampaged the headquarters of the emergency committee in a town north of occupied Jerusalem and assaulted the emergency workers. 

Israeli forces assaulted volunteers working at Palestinian checkpoints to prevent the movement of citizens to stop the spread of coronavirus.

When Palestinian schools in East Jerusalem were closing due to the coronavirus, Israeli authorities demanded that they re-open. When Palestinian youths began to sterilize buildings in the city, Israeli authorities arrested them. Israel dismantled the barriers that were erected by residents of Hebron to examine Palestinian workers coming from Israel in an effort to prevent spread of the virus.

And this week, the Israeli military destroyed numerous wells in the occupied West Bank.

Sources: PNNPNNWAFA

 

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