Drying up Palestine 2

Drying up Palestine is a 28-minute documentary by Rima Essa and Peter Snowdon about water access issues in the occupied West Bank. The film was produced by Gourna Films for the Palestinian NGO House of Water and Environment. It describes the stresses and strains imposed on Palestinan society by Israel's almost total control over water resources in the occupied territories. The sequences form an arc covering the main episodes in the history of this water grab from 1967 to the present day.

After a brief prologue setting the scene, chapter one begins in Bardala, a village in the Jordan Valley, whose traditional water sources were dried up by the first deep wells drilled by the Israelis in the mid-70s to supply the agricultural settlements they were establishing at that time. The villagers describe the impact that this has had on their lives and livelihoods to the present day. The shadow of more recent forms of harrassment is never far from their minds."

THIS IS A PIECE OF the first 'chapter' of Drying up Palestine, a 28-minute documentary on water issues in the occupied West Bank, made by Rima Essa and Peter Snowdon.

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Education

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• Rima Essa
• Peter Snowdon
• documentary
• Drying up
• West Bank
• produced by Gourna Films
• Gourna Films
• Palestinian
• Palestinan society
• Israel
• water
• occupied territories
• Bardala
• village
• Jordan Valley
• resources
• water resources

[audimanone]

BLAME YOUR LEADERSHIP!

This is the problem, and I see that the people are helpless against Hamas who is the REAL ROOT Cause to the problems your people face. If the EXTREMEIST Views are Crushed, then and ONLY THEN, will you be able to open a dialouge with the Israelies and live in peace. I hate to rub salt in an open wound, but Israel is not the problem, Hama's and their radical ideas are & they are the one's you should be fighting against. Open your eyes

[i1neFreefilistine]

@audimanone Lol what a bunch of bullshit ! Ok there is much corruption (but that is not the hamas problem but the plo !) and hat corruption is everywhere on the world so dont bodder to blaim only palestians about that! Then about your smaltalk about talking with the israeli ! If you say the palestinians have to fight hamas instead of israel :s then i am sure you are a drug addicted idiot or something or you clearly have lost contact with reality! Israel are the uppressors !! !

[i1neFreefilistine]

@audimanone And please dont start a bullshit discussion ! Have you been there ??? Dont thinks so ! Well i have been there and i have talked to all sides ! I have seen the "loving" nation called 'israel' . It makes me sick people like you still defend it ! How many more people, children,... have to die befor you idiots open your eyes!

[starlight1946]

This is what the Israelis continue to do to the Palestinians and the world just ignores it. Ask yourself why does the US continue to give billions every year to the inhuman Zionist Israelis? They stole Palestinian Land and give them pollution in return. Israel makes the Palestinians pay for their own water.

[PeterSodhi]

Zionists are truly the dirtiest scum alive.

[glenwold]

You are3 correct. Zionism is equivalent to nazusm,  it must be destroyed