Israel’s Water Authority today confirmed last week’s reports that the state-run water company had dramatically cut water supplies to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, saying the hot weather is leading to a localized “shortage.”
At the same time, spokesman Uri Schor sought to blame the Palestinians for the problem, saying they hadn’t approved the “additional water infrastructure” and that the shortage only developed because of the limited pipes in the region.
The Palestinian Water Authority denied that there were any problems with the pipes, saying USAID had just finished installing new pipelines to serve the population in Hebron and Bethlehem, but that Israel wasn’t sending anywhere near enough water into those areas.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians in the area haven’t had running water in over a month and a half how, and many have had to draw from agricultural water sources just to survive. The Israelis maintain settlers have complained of “shortages” as well, but indications are that consumption rates within the settlements have simply gone up because of the heat, and it’s not a question of them not having any water.
Sure, the “settlements” have complained of shortages, themselves – with the hot weather, all of their swimming pools are getting heavy use.
The Zionists will do anything to drive the Palestinians off their land, including outright killing them for the slightest reason; they are despicable people.
Water shortages in the Palestinian Authority are the result of Palestinian policies that deliberately waste water and destroy the regional water ecology. The Palestinians refuse to develop their own significant underground water resources, build a seawater desalination plant, fix massive leakage from their municipal water pipes, build sewage treatment plants, irrigate land with treated sewage effluents or modern water-saving devices, or bill their own citizens for consumer water usage, leading to enormous waste. At the same time, they drill illegally into Israel’s water resources, and send their sewage flowing into the valleys and streams of central Israel. In short, the Palestinian Authority is using water as a weapon against the State of Israel. It is not interested in practical solutions to solve the Palestinian people’s water shortages, but rather perpetuation of the shortages and the besmirching of Israel.
http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/truth-behind-palestinian-water-libels/
Gary is always the lapdog to justify Israel’s utter fiendish criminality, but then again this is what Zionists do. There is not ANY legal justification for any settler to be on Palestinian land. Furthermore what water sources that the Palestinians have tried to develop the Israeli’s have destroyed via violent illegal squatters, and the IDF. How would the Palestinians be drilling illegally when the land has always been their’s to begin with??? There was NO SUCH THING as an Israel before 1948. The Palestinians have been on those lands for thousands of years. Zionists have no claim to Palestine by any historical, or blood lineage. They use Judaism as a ploy to carry out terrorist agenda’s period. Go back to sleep Gary!!
The Palestinian people will remain occupied and oppressed as long a the Zionists have free reign in the State of Palestine. Get out of Palestine and return to your own borders!
..But Zionism did not exist until 1898, and was the invention of Theodor Herzl. Zionism is the fabric of Israel, not Judaism which is why Israel is an outlaw terrorist state.
Zionists are not Jews….if so show me where Zionism is defined and equated to Judaism in the Torah, or Talmud….or the Bible….No definition for Zionism exists except what has been fabricated BY Zionists.
I was in Israel a few years ago. I remember stopping into a small Palestinian village which had probably been there for thousands of years. An old man at a well was trying to get enough water for his goats. Very little water in the well. Looking up on the hills above was a new gleaming Israeli housing complex with an Olympic swimming pool!! You bet the Palestinians have a water shortage!