Troubled Waters: Palestinians Denied Fair Access to Water

http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/israel/occupied-palestinian-territori...

A new report released by Amnesty International sheds light into the "discriminatory policies" that Israel imposes on the Palestinian population of both the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Israel uses more than 80% of water from the main underground source, while restricting Palestinian access to 20%.

Amnesty International calls on Israel to end its discriminatory policies, immediately lift all the restrictions it imposes on Palestinians access to water, and take responsibility for addressing the problems it created by allowing Palestinians a fair share of the shared water resources.

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[connielane]

Free Palestine from Israeli oppression!

[theElectricityscape]

Palestine be free.

[johnnypdeuce]

yes, palestine, rise up, but of your own strength and with an eye to peace and cooperation. less hate, more love. less lies and suspicion, more truth and understanding. MORE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

[johnnypdeuce]

lies of their leaders and cease to blame their woes on the jews. i live in and love israel, and can say confidently that the vast majority of people here want peace and are striving to work for it. the rest of the world is remiss in condemning israel- that energy would be much better spent in uplifting the palestinian people and teaching them to stand without the crutch that further disables them: the claim that everything is the fault of the jews.

[johnnypdeuce]

the perpetuation of the holocaust in europe, and the difficulty of adapting to a harsh new land. israelis have a right to be proud of the society they have created for themselves, and the smart palestinians who are not blinded by hate instilled by radical islam and led by the nose by jihadist movements can see this and desire to share in that prosperity. not only that, but to create that prosperity for themselves, AS THEY DESERVE. but this will not happen until palestinians see through the...

[johnnypdeuce]

overnight and in defiance of the OCCUPYING british military, piping water through miles of barren desert wasteland and founding communities that survive to this day. swaths of swamp were drained and turned into arable farmland, and where once there was only sand and stone, beautiful fields of green and forests have been cultivated- all this in the span of a century. and the jews did it alone, facing massacres at the hands of palestinian arabs under the blind eye of british mandate government...

[johnnypdeuce]

taken out of context as they are, those pictures of filthy aquifers do nothing to underscore the fact that as a culture, arabs in israel seem to have little concern for the care of their surrounding natural environment. they shit all over their own land and dump garbage everywhere. of course they require help to create a more responsible society... but look at the superhuman efforts undertaken by the yishuv jews in prestate israel. they managed to create entirely new settlements, oftentimes...

[gongshowhocky90]

anyone who thinks these palestinians are peace seeking people are obviously out of your fucking minds. how much appeasement do we give these baby killers and murderers? why doesnt any other arab nation take these people in? because no one wants the cancer which is the so called palestinian people youre all fucked amnesty usa better get your fucking facts straight

[kimochaser]

@backhoe441 I think Israel got a better experience in that field "the killing" u keep talking about , u saying Palestinians aim rockets towards Israel but it didnt cross your mind that Israel used internationally forbidden weapons against both Palestinians and Lebanese Civilians and it didnt cross your mind either it keeps building settlements on Palestinians and prevent them from doing their holy prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque and keep assassinating them all over the world........

[Sashok0074]

LIARS GET A FUCKING JOB !!!

[backhoe441]

So, I can see that the Palestinians do not know how to drill a well, or treat sewerage, but, they know how to kill. Do they believe that they can kill the Jews into prosperity? Or kill the Jews into more water and cleaner enviroment? Maybe if they shoot more rockets into Israel they will get more water. Iran needs to give them more rockets and guns to provide them with more water.

[jmzimmerman1984]

anti-Semitism! anti-Semitism! <--- cries falling off deaf ears.