Five year old Palestinian boy begs soldiers not to take his father away after he was arrested for stealing water.
When someone’s standard of living is so low that they need to steal water in order for their children to survive, something is clearly wrong.
Stealing is wrong. Stealing food and water in order to survive under an oppressive government that isn’t even your own is not.
Since Israel began its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip it remained in control of the water resources and diverted water from the Palestinian territories to the cities and settlements.
It must be noted that Israel has not allowed the Palestinians to control their water according to their needs, but tied them up in resolutions through which the Jewish state:
- Limits the amount of water withdrawals to no more than 100 cubic meters per hour.
- Limits the depth of drilled wells to 140 meters, requiring specific types of old pumps which are permitted in the West Bank, essentially limiting the capacity to extract water from these wells.
- Dug huge wells in strategic areas where water accumulates across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in order to steal Palestinian water (60 wells in the West Bank, 43 in the Gaza Strip, and 26 along the armistice line between Gaza and Israel.
- Adopted a strategy of building small dams to prevent the natural flow of surface water to the Palestinian areas thus allowing the transfer of high quality water from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories into Israeli cities, or selling this water to the Palestinians.
- Builds settlements such that they are in areas with the highest quality underground water reserves to allow Israel to seize the water, directly or indirectly, a policy which has lead to the depletion of groundwater in the Gaza Strip.
i’m not even going to click this video. the caption is enough for me -.-
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