In this report, Who Profits highlights the role of Mekorot, Israel’s national water company, in facilitating the dispossession and displacement of Palestinian communities on both sides of the Green Line – an embedded dispossession utilized to bolster Israel’s settlement enterprise and economic growth, and contingent on exploiting occupied natural resources and violating Palestinian and Syrian rights.
The report reviews Israel’s control over water resources and how Mekorot systematically denies adequate Palestinian access to water leading to structured dependency and the captivity of the Palestinian water sector, a dependency Mekorot has a vested financial interest in maintaining.
