water rights

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

An Israeli settler mows the lawn in the settlement of Susya in the south Hebron Hills, May 25, 2009. (photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Using stolen water to irrigate stolen land

Settlers are trying to spin water shortages as a problem that affects both Palestinians and Jews in the same manner. That couldn’t be further from the truth. By Dror Etkes The recent reports on water crisis in Palestinian areas of the West Bank were accompanied by a story of another water shortage: this time in…

By +972 Magazine July 16, 2016

A man reads a newspaper while floating in the Dead Sea. (Author unknown, WikiCommons)

Red-Dead pipeline is the wrong answer, politically and environmentally

Pumping Red Sea water into the Dead Sea to save it from drying up ignores environmental consequences, experts warn. Rights groups decry the plan as an ‘attempt to force the Palestinian population to consent to their own dispossession.’ By Keren Simons Israel and Jordan last Thursday signed a historic agreement to cooperate over their shared bodies…

By +972 Magazine March 5, 2015

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