distribution of water

Palestinian farmers walk in their fields, Ein Al Bedia, West Bank. (Ahmad Al Bazz/Activestills.org)

Israel cuts off water to Palestinian village for a week

Ein al-Beida is one of only a few Palestinian villages in the Jordan Valley area of the West Bank that are even connected to the water grid. Photos and text by Ahmad Al-Bazz / Activestills.org Some 50 Palestinians from the northern West Bank village of Ein al-Beida staged a protest last week against an Israeli…

By Activestills September 11, 2017

A Palestinian activist collects water as an Israeli military patrol monitors activity in the Jordan Valley protest village of Ein Hijleh, West Bank, February 6, 2014. As part of its Melh Al-Ard (Salt of the Earth) campaign, the Palestinian Popular Struggle Coordination Committee began on Friday January 31 to restore and occupy abandoned homes in Ein Hijleh to protest the ongoing Israeli annexation of the Jordan Valley. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

WATCH: Far from the public eye, Palestinian villages are being dried out

Qarawat Bani Hassan, a Palestinian village in the West Bank water shortage since Israel’s national water company decided to reduce its supply. This past July, Israeli activists visited the village and heard first-hand how the residents cope.

By Social TV August 19, 2016

International light installation coordinated by the Coalition of Women for Peace along with the "Water Coalition," calling for equal water rights for Palestinians, August 14, 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Global protests highlight severe water crisis in Gaza and West Bank

An international light installation coordinated by the ‘Water Coalition’ calls for equal water rights for Palestinians. Activists across the world organized light installation protests over the past few days to bring attention to the diminishing water supply for Palestinians in the West Bank, along with contamination and severe water shortages in the Gaza Strip. In a display…

By Orly Noy August 15, 2016

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Palestinian child carries water gallon in Qarawat Bani Hassan village, West Bank, May 23, 2015. According to the municipal council of Qarawat Bani Hassan the portion of a each villager has decreased to two litters per day as the village receive only 97 Cubic meter per hour. The municipal council said the Israeli authorities did not provide the village with answers regarding the situation. Ahmad al-Bazz / Activestills.org

West Bank village wakes up to no water

The municipal council of Qarawat Bani Hassan was not warned that their water supply was going to be nearly shut off for days, and attempts to get answers from Israel, through the Palestinian Authority, did not bear any fruit. Text and photos by: Ahmad al-Bazz / Activestills.org Last Wednesday, without any prior warning, the majority…

By Activestills May 26, 2015

A Palestinian woman carries a bucket of water. (photo: Activestills)

A West Bank water crisis for Palestinians only

When Israel’s national water company operates more than 40 wells in the West Bank, appropriates Palestinian water resources and controls the valves, is it any surprise that priority is given to Israeli settlements? By Stephanie Westbrook Qarawat Bani Zeid is a small Palestinian town of 3,500 north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. There are no…

By +972 Magazine November 22, 2014

A resident of Ras Shehada plugs the building's pipe to a pump to help the water pressure, East Jerusalem, March 15, 2014. The family of nine, living in the Ras Shehada neighborhood has been going 10 days without running water. (Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: 13 days without water in East Jerusalem

The East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Ras Shehada, Ras Khamis, Dahyat A’salam and the Shuafat refugee camp, which are cut off from the rest of the city by the separation wall, have gone without running water since March 4. Text: Ryan Rodrick Beiler, Photos: Tali Mayer, Keren Manor, Shiraz Grinbaum / Activestills.org Locals say that Ras Shehada has had…

By Activestills March 17, 2014

Visualizing Occupation: Distribution of Water

Israel controls the access to water from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Its disproportionate allocation of water, the settlements’ takeover of natural springs, and the prohibition against maintaining and constructing water cisterns in the West Bank without Israeli permits make water a sparse commodity for Palestinians. This illustration is the sixth in a series of infographics on Palestinian civilian life…

By +972 Resources July 1, 2012