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In addition, water infrastructure is often destroyed during military operations in deliberate attacks, which violates international humanitarian law.
Amnesty International “Troubled Waters,” 15.
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. Furthermore, water tariffs are considered too high as well.
Al-Kjatib Issam, et al, “Analysis of a current water tariff and attitudes towards change: A representative study from a Palestinian city,” Water and Environment Journal 37, no. 4: 770-781.
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97% of water is not drinkable, and a quarter of all disease in Gaza is caused by water contamination. Al Jazeera
“Weaponising water in Palestine”
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Military Order 92 of 1967: the Israeli army was granted complete authority over all water-related issues in the regionMilitary Order 291 of 1968: annulled all land and water-related arrangements which existed prior to Israel’s occupation of the West BankMilitary order 158 of 1967: Palestinians are not allowed to construct any new water infrastructure without an Israeli military permitAmnesty International states that “These and other Israeli Military Orders remain in force today in the OPT [occupied Palestinian territory] and apply only to Palestinians. They do NOT apply to Israeli settlers in the OPT, who are subject to Israeli civilian law.”
Amnesty International “Troubled Waters: Palestinians Denied Fair Access to Water.” Accessed 30 March 2024. www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/027/2009/en/
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‘You have to feel the land in you and drink its water.” Um Muhammed, midwife and healer
Naguib, Women, Water and Memory, 76.
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“Water is life, and people’s life can be grasped and studied through water.” Nefissa Naguib, anthropologist
Naguib, Nefissa. Women, Water and Memory : Recasting Lives in Palestine (BRILL, 2008), 1, ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/lafayettecol-ebooks/detail.action?docID=468287.
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“When we built this settlement, we never took one square inch of Palestinian land…Look at the hills of this landscape…They [Palestinians] don’t plant! They don’t cultivate. We made something here.” Ron Nahman, mayor of Israeli Ariel settlement
Fields, Gary. “‘This is Our Land’: Collective Violence, Property Law, and Imagining the Geography of Palestine.” Journal of Cultural Geography 29, no. 3 (Oct. 2012): 279.
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“From the first moment of the Zionist idea, the Zionist propaganda described the land to which we were headed as desolate and forsaken, impatiently waiting for its redeemers” Moshe Smilansky, founder of the agricultural colony of Rehovot
Leshem, N. (2013). Repopulating the Emptiness: A Spatial Critique of Ruination in Israel/Palestine,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 31, no. 3: 522-537.
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In contrast, Israeli citizens do not have to worry about taps running dry.
“Weaponising Water in Palestine” Al Jazeera, 27 Jul. 2023, www.aljazeera.com/program/people-power/2023/7/27/weaponising-water-in-palestine.
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Palestinians receive only 75% of their allocated water and must purchase often low quality water at high prices to meet their needs.
Spreadborough, Natasha. “From the River to the Sea,” 470.
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Palestine is not recognized as a state under the Oslo accords, and its main governing body, the Palestinian Authority, has little control over resources.
Spreadborough, Natasha. “From the River to the Sea,” 469.
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These main water sources are under the practical and legal control of Israel
Spreadborough, Natasha. “From the River to the Sea: Water Conflict and International Law in Israel and Palestine.” Wisconsin International Law Journal, vol. 39, no. 3, Mar. 2022, pp. 459–84. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=14061435-aac2-3bf6-b3a6-6b1efa90ece5. Accessed 6 March 2024, 468.
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