FREEDOM WITHOUT WATER?
September 30, 2011 @ 11:21 am
From its founding Israel as an apartheid colonial power has appropriated natural resources from native people to use for immigrants imported from around the world. Before 1967, Israel diverted waters that normally flowed into the Jordan river basin and also restricted water usage by the Palestinians who remained in what became the state of Israel in 1948. After 1967, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were denied access to most of their water resources in a calculated process to impoverish the population and destroy the economy in the occupied Palestinian territories. Today, Palestinian are allowed to use an average of 72 liters per capita per day versus Israeli average of 280 liters versus settlers in the West Bank average of 400 liters daily. For some communities of Palestinians like those in area C, the situation is worse as Israel routinely destroys their sources of water.