To anyone wondering why Israel HAVE to provide water supply, it’s because there is no suitable water supply in Gaza. While I don’t doubt Hamas is sabotaging any attempts to build water infrastructure, it doesn’t change the fact that there is no native water supply in Gaza and if Israel does not want civilians to die from hydration, they must provide it.
> In Gaza, some 90-95 per cent of the water supply is contaminated and unfit for human consumption. Israel does not allow water to be transferred from the West Bank to Gaza, and Gaza’s only fresh water resource, the Coastal Aquifer, is insufficient for the needs of the population and is being increasingly depleted by over-extraction and contaminated by sewage and seawater infiltration.
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> Some two million Gazans suffer from a constant shortage of water, which gets worse in summer. The tap water is salty and polluted and is not fit for drinking. In the absence of other alternatives, residents are forced to use this water for bathing and washing, yet the supply is irregular and unpredictable. For drinking and cooking, they no choice to buy water privately – despite severe financial hardship – and even then it is usually substandard.
One of these orgs is Amnesty and the other is an NGO based in Israel. So don’t say they are anti-Semitic or Hamas propaganda or some shit.
Absolutely insane. Providing your enemies with free water. No other country on Earth would do this
Good news.
Now we just need the Egyptian border to open, give fleeing civilians safe passage, and IDF can get to work on Hamas.
Cutting off water was just a stupid move in the first place
>The IDF has been directing residents to move to the south of the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are currently in this area or are moving in that direction. Israel has agreed to restore water in this region to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis. It is important to note that Israel supplies Gaza with water, power, fuel, and food, despite the billions of dollars in international aid sent every year. Hamas, the democratically elected government of the Gaza Strip typically commandeer foreign aid in order to fund their terrorist militant arm. A few days ago, as part of its blockade strategy, Israel shut off the flow of clean water, leaving Gaza residents to depend on tainted local wells. When the EU previously provided supplies for irrigation and Israel attempted to assist with the construction of new, clean wells, Hamas stole the pipes and used them to build more rockets. Yes, it is wrong for Israel to deprive civilians access to vital supplies, but it is not Israel’s fault that they are the only viable source of these supplies. The people of Gaza are more valuable to Hamas as hostages and pawns. To Hamas, the dead body of a Palestinian is worth more as a PR weapon against Israel than as a human being. Meanwhile, Egypt has consistently refused to open their border with Gaza and has reiterated their refusal to accept Gazan refugees.
The fact that they cut water almost a week ago, and we didn’t see people dying of dehydration means they had some water sources inside Gaza to last for a couple of weeks at least. Good thing the supply is back on, before things turned out ugly in regards to water for the civilians there.
Israel only supplies 10% of water to the gaza strip, they have their own private companies and desalination plants that provide 90% of their water
“Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!”
Palestinians were almost never given the right of return during past internal and external forced migrations.Once Israel gains foothold on the northern part of Gaza it won’t be meaningfully Palestinian again. So this is basically saying “leave your homes and land forever or be bombed” .Its ethnic cleansing and people here that are trying to paint the whole deal or these news as something positive or some obvious and easy choice are sugar coating ethnic cleansing
It took US pressure to get basic water re-instated, and only part of the country?
What about the old and sick and those in hospitals in the North who cannot move?
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To anyone wondering why Israel HAVE to provide water supply, it’s because there is no suitable water supply in Gaza. While I don’t doubt Hamas is sabotaging any attempts to build water infrastructure, it doesn’t change the fact that there is no native water supply in Gaza and if Israel does not want civilians to die from hydration, they must provide it.
> In Gaza, some 90-95 per cent of the water supply is contaminated and unfit for human consumption. Israel does not allow water to be transferred from the West Bank to Gaza, and Gaza’s only fresh water resource, the Coastal Aquifer, is insufficient for the needs of the population and is being increasingly depleted by over-extraction and contaminated by sewage and seawater infiltration.
Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/11/the-occupation-of-water/
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> Some two million Gazans suffer from a constant shortage of water, which gets worse in summer. The tap water is salty and polluted and is not fit for drinking. In the absence of other alternatives, residents are forced to use this water for bathing and washing, yet the supply is irregular and unpredictable. For drinking and cooking, they no choice to buy water privately – despite severe financial hardship – and even then it is usually substandard.
Source: https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/water-gaza-scarce-polluted-and-mostly-unfit-use
One of these orgs is Amnesty and the other is an NGO based in Israel. So don’t say they are anti-Semitic or Hamas propaganda or some shit.
Absolutely insane. Providing your enemies with free water. No other country on Earth would do this
Good news.
Now we just need the Egyptian border to open, give fleeing civilians safe passage, and IDF can get to work on Hamas.
Cutting off water was just a stupid move in the first place
>The IDF has been directing residents to move to the south of the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are currently in this area or are moving in that direction. Israel has agreed to restore water in this region to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis. It is important to note that Israel supplies Gaza with water, power, fuel, and food, despite the billions of dollars in international aid sent every year. Hamas, the democratically elected government of the Gaza Strip typically commandeer foreign aid in order to fund their terrorist militant arm. A few days ago, as part of its blockade strategy, Israel shut off the flow of clean water, leaving Gaza residents to depend on tainted local wells. When the EU previously provided supplies for irrigation and Israel attempted to assist with the construction of new, clean wells, Hamas stole the pipes and used them to build more rockets. Yes, it is wrong for Israel to deprive civilians access to vital supplies, but it is not Israel’s fault that they are the only viable source of these supplies. The people of Gaza are more valuable to Hamas as hostages and pawns. To Hamas, the dead body of a Palestinian is worth more as a PR weapon against Israel than as a human being. Meanwhile, Egypt has consistently refused to open their border with Gaza and has reiterated their refusal to accept Gazan refugees.
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The fact that they cut water almost a week ago, and we didn’t see people dying of dehydration means they had some water sources inside Gaza to last for a couple of weeks at least. Good thing the supply is back on, before things turned out ugly in regards to water for the civilians there.
Israel only supplies 10% of water to the gaza strip, they have their own private companies and desalination plants that provide 90% of their water
“Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!”
Palestinians were almost never given the right of return during past internal and external forced migrations.Once Israel gains foothold on the northern part of Gaza it won’t be meaningfully Palestinian again. So this is basically saying “leave your homes and land forever or be bombed” .Its ethnic cleansing and people here that are trying to paint the whole deal or these news as something positive or some obvious and easy choice are sugar coating ethnic cleansing
It took US pressure to get basic water re-instated, and only part of the country?
What about the old and sick and those in hospitals in the North who cannot move?