Tag: Water
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CPT: Israeli Border Police Demolish Water Infrastructure in Al Baqa’a Valley
Christian Peacemaker Team – Hebron For the third time in 12 days, Israeli Border Police carried out demolitions in Al Baqa’a valley, a fertile farming area northeast of Hebron, along route 60. On July 19, the Israeli Border Police, with the assistance of hired laborers using heavy machinery, destroyed a cistern and removed irrigation pipes…
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CPT: Israeli Border Police Demolish Cistern in Al Beqa’a Valley
Christian Peacemaker Team – Hebron Israeli border police demolished a rainwater cistern and removed irrigation pipes from several Palestinian fields in Al Beqa’a Valley just east of Hebron on July 14, 2010, the second day of incidents in the area this month. When international peace activists from Christian Peacemaker Teams arrived in the area at…
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Female students of Madama school subject to constant harassment from Israeli army
12 January 2010 Israeli Occupation Forces entered the northern West Bank village of Madama last night, damaging 5 houses and terrifying residents. The military has upped their presence in Madama in recent weeks, with the harassment of female students on their way to school becoming commonplace, and the creation of a new roadblock separating hundreds…
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Letter to family and friends: Bir el-Eid, West Bank
I have now been in the village of Bir el-Eid for three weeks. This has been a great time of connecting with the people here, helping with chores with the sheep, going out in the hills with the sheep, and helping rebuild the village. Israeli settlers attacked a flock of sheep on Saturday, November 28.…
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Israel rations Palestinians to trickle of water
Amnesty International 27 October 2009 Amnesty International has accused Israel of denying Palestinians the right to access adequate water by maintaining total control over the shared water resources and pursuing discriminatory policies. These unreasonably restrict the availability of water in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and prevent the Palestinians developing an effective water infrastructure there.…