“Israel’s water apartheid is by definition opposed to any policy and vision that promotes justice, equality and water as a human right. Its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights gives Israel control over a major water source. In Gaza, under siege by Israel for 15 years, 97% of the water is undrinkable. The 2.048 million people living in this open air prison were this month bombed yet again by Israel, killing 49 people including 17 children and further damaging water, sanitation and other infrastructure. In the occupied West Bank the Jordan River is being drained dry – it is estimated that the over 600,000 illegal Israeli settlers consume three to eight times more water than the 2.8 million Palestinians living under violent occupation.”
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