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Thread: Amnesty: Israel Denies Palestinians Water!


Permlink Replies: 3 - Last Post: Oct 29, 2009 11:28 AM by: cyberers
Maryam95


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Amnesty: Israel Denies Palestinians Water!
Posted: Oct 29, 2009 7:27 AM
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A Palestinian water crisis?

An Amnesty International report has claimed that Israel is denying Palestinians adequate access to clean, safe water while allowing almost unlimited supplies to Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Israel, which itself faces unprecedented water shortages, controls much of the West Bank's supplies, pumping from the so-called Mountain Aquifer that bridges Israel and the territory.

Israel's water authority called the report "biased and incorrect at the very least" and said that while there is a water gap, it is not nearly as big as presented by the human rights organisation.

Inside Story discusses the accuracy of the report and how water shortages in the West Bank and Gaza may affect the conflict in the Middle East and future prospects for peace.

Imran Garda is joined by Gerald Steinberg, the president of NGO Monitor and director of the conflict resolution programme at Bar Ilan University, Donatella Rovera, the chief researcher for Amnesty International's Middle East section, and Shaddad Attili, the head of the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA).

Watch the report here...

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/insidestory/2009/10/2009102862316952344.html

Strangely...  Israel had never been prosecuted or held accountable for its actions!

When will Israel PAY for its crimes against humanity?

Why does Israel ALWAYS get away with its crimes?



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Maryam95


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From: Muslim live in Egypt
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Re: Amnesty: Israel denies Palestinians access to clean water!
Posted: Oct 29, 2009 7:49 AM   in response to: Maryam95 in response to: Maryam95
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It is obvious to any researcher that Israel has clearly violated all international documents, charters and treaties. It is very strange indeed that Israel and its officials had never been prosecuted or held accountable for their actions.
As for
the economic part of the International Covenant, http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_cescr.htm

below we show how Israel deals with this aspect:


Article 11. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
2. All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.

- We have mentioned earlier in the civil and political covenants how Israel violates this article by occupying Palestinian land, building the separation wall, placing Gaza under siege, and building settlements on Palestinian land whose owners have documents of ownership, deploying barriers between cities and villages, and stopping Palestinians for long hours on these barriers, including the workers who lose their jobs because of permanent delay.

- Israel has seized all fresh water resources in the West Bank and Golan Heights. It is establishing settlements on fertile land after the expulsion of its inhabitants and confiscation of the land. It builds its army camps near freshwater resources.Israel also had and is still cutting off hundreds of thousands of olive and citrus trees which belong to Palestinians, destroying their orchards and vineyards and confiscating them to construct the separation wall and build settlements or military barracks.
Read:
The dismantling of Israel Document: Israel is an outlawed entity
Sign The dismantling of Israel Document: Israel is an outlawed entity Petition


Maryam95


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From: Muslim live in Egypt
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Re: Amnesty: Israel denies Palestinians access to clean water!
Posted: Oct 29, 2009 9:05 AM   in response to: Maryam95 in response to: Maryam95
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Israel Denying Palestinians Water: Amnesty

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1256034048618&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout

“Israel allows the Palestinians access to only a fraction of the shared water resources,” Amnesty said. 

“Israel allows the Palestinians access to only a fraction of the shared water resources,” Amnesty said.



cyberers

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Re: Amnesty: Israel Denies Palestinians Water!
Posted: Oct 29, 2009 11:22 AM   in response to: Maryam95 in response to: Maryam95
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Israel got a thing about water.Well, what should happen is...Arab country's should stick together and drive them right into the ocean. Well deserved swim.

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