Israel Denies Water Access to More Palestinian Villages

During the hottest month of the year, the Israeli occupation has cut off water from three more Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank.

The villages of Qarawat Bani Hassan, Biddya and Sarta, in the West Bank cityu of Nablus, have received only a partial supply of water, leaving almost half of their residents without running water on certain days.

Mayor of Qarawat Bani Hassan, Aziz Aasi, said that the Israeli water company "Mekorot" had begun lowering the water quota for the villages, causing water pressure to drop.

“Following the decrease in water pressure, all the houses that are in the higher parts of the towns were left without a drop,” he said, according to Days of Palestine.

Rifat Mari was one of the residents left without water. “I have three children and I need to walk for kilometres to a spring that has a stream of water in order to fill bottles for the kids. We did not have showers for several days.”

The serious shortage, last week, led the village mayors to organise a protest outside the main water pump.

Israeli military troops, police,and Civil Administration officials arrived to try to restore calm and promised residents that the problem would be solved, but that was an attempt to supress protests calling for rein station water supply.

“Why do the Jewish settlers next to us get a quota of 300 litters per person, while we only get 70 litters per person?” asked Biddya Mayor Suleiman Taha. “If they get such an amount of water, then we should get the same amount.”

Meanwhile, the villages are being helped by neighbouring Palestinian villages, which send water tankers every few days, but this is not enough.

“The residents are furious at me,” said Aasi. “They think I have a button next to my bed that turns the village’s water on and off.”

Mekorot recently decided to adjust the water because of increased consumption, causing shortages in only the Palestinian villages, leaving them suffering.

https://www.imemc.org/article/72615

Israel cuts water to Palestinian village, causing deaths of hundreds of farm animals

As an exceptionally hot summer heatwave continues to drain the region's water supplies, this week Israeli water company Mekorot took the situation to a new level with the villagers of Kafr Qaddoum when the company cut off the village's water supply.


Dead cattle in Kfar Qaddoum (image by Applied Research Center)

The village is almost entirely dependent on agriculture, and the cutoff of water left hundreds of animals without water. The human population of the village numbers around 4,000, and only those who had water tanks or stored water bottles were able to have anything to drink during the Israeli water cutoff.

The animals which died include a number of cattle, and hundreds of chickens and other domestic birds.

According to the head of the village council of Kafr Qaddoum, located in the northern West Bank near Nablus, the Israeli company cut off the village's water with no warning or reason.

Hamzeh Jomaa, the village council head, said that he has been trying to contact Mekorot to find out why the water was cut and when it will return.

In the meantime, the farm-dependent village is likely to continue to lose livestock and crops as the excessive heat continues.

Mekorot pumps water from underground reservoirs on Palestinian-owned land, essentially stealing water from Palestinians and then selling it back to them at high prices.

The amount of water allocated to Israelis is nearly four times the amount provided to Palestinian residents. Just 70 liters a day is provided to Palestinians, even during heat waves such as the current one, and this is less than the 100 liters a day recommended as a minimum by the World Health Organization.

And the allocation also does not include agricultural uses, despite the fact that the majority of Palestinians are dependent on agriculture for survival.

http://www.imemc.org/article/72555

Nice easy was to kill them and their animals in one go.

COGAT said that Mekorot recently decided to adjust the water because of increased consumption, causing shortages in Palestinian and Israeli villages alike, and that the water supply had fully returned over the weekend.


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4689476,00.html

They lied, the settlements had water.  But then, that's normal.

The amount of water allocated to Israelis is nearly four times the amount provided to Palestinian residents. Just 70 liters a day is provided to Palestinians, even during heat waves such as the current one, and this is less than the 100 liters a day recommended as a minimum by the World Health Organization.

And the allocation also does not include agricultural uses, despite the fact that the majority of Palestinians are dependent on agriculture for survival.

So sassy claims they lied based off two minor news outlets and no real main media.

Is this like your claim that they flooded areas before when you were exposed to be lying on that remember? Or you bought into a lie, when no Dams where near the villages, when it was actually heavy rain that created the problem?

There is no nice white main media news there, and like the racist you are, you downplay ynet and imec who are the main local news providers..  Bloody racist.

So what white media are you talking about?
Palestinians and israelis are both caucasians, are you saying they are now racist?
So you are saying any western press is now white media sassy?
Again colourizing and placing labels where none exist.

I rightly question articles Sassy and like before and many times before I have caught out lies being promoted in the media.
I do not think any group of humans is superior to others, that is racism sassy, may I suggest you look up the terminology