Mekorot Loses Portugal Deal, Faces Global Protests
Lisbon’s water company EPAL has announced that it has terminated a technology exchange deal with Israeli state water company, Mekorot,…
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Israel Further Restricts Water to Palestinians
In a report by the Wafa news agency, the agency found that in Israel’s ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip…
WAFA: “Israeli Water Company Reduces Water Supply to Hebron, Bethlehem”
RAMALLAH, Saturday, July 15, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli national water company Mekorot has reduced the daily amount of water…
Israeli Army Shuts Down Water Lines Leading To Bardala Village
On Tuesday, the Israeli army shut down water lines that provide the Palestinian village of Bardala in the northern Jordan…
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PCHR: “Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR, (Weekly Update 02 – 08 February 2023) Violation of the right to…
Israeli Soldiers Uproot Dozens Of Olive Trees Near Salfit
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers uprooted at least fifty olive trees in Palestinian orchards in the Zawiya town, west of Salfit,…
Israeli Soldiers Demolish Two Wells Near Tulkarem
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers invaded the ar-Ras and Kafr Aboush villages, south of Tulkarem in the northern part of the…
WAFA: “Number of Palestinians worldwide doubled 10 times since Nakba, official figures show”
RAMALLAH, May 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Ola Awad, the Chairperson of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), said in…
Israeli Army Continues Uprooting Trees, Demolition Of Retaining Walls Near Salfit
Israeli soldiers continued Thursday, the bulldozing of Palestinian lands, the uprooting of dozens of trees, and the demotion of retaining…
Al-Haq: World Water Day: Israel’s Discriminatory Policies Constitute a Systemic Attack on the Palestinian People’s Right to Water and Sanitation
Since the initial observation of the United Nations World Water Day on 22 March 1993, Israel, as the Occupying Power…
Statistics Bureau: “Only 4% of household members in Gaza Strip have access to safely managed water that is free of pollution”
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), and the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) Issue a joint Press Release on the…
PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (02– 08 July 2020)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and…
Official BNC Statement on Release of Long-delayed UN Settlement Database
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) We welcome this long-delayed UN list of complicit companies. Some major firms involved with illegal…
Release of Long-Delayed UN Settlement Database Significant Step Towards Holding Israel Accountable
BDS Movement Press Release: We welcome this long-delayed UN list of complicit companies. Some major firms involved with illegal settlements…
WHO: Over 97% of Gaza’s Water Below Quality Standards
More than 97% of the water pumped from the coastal aquifer, in the besieged Gaza Strip, does not meet the…
Israeli Soldiers Shut Down Water Lines Leading To Village And Its School
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday morning, Furush Beit Dajan village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and…
Settlement Pollutes Palestinian Olive Groves With Sewage Water
The picture might look beautiful, but the water badly smells of sewage. 11/17 | International Solidarity Movement | Nablus Team …
How Israel Engages In ‘Water Apartheid’
by Mersiha Gadzo, Al Jazeera/Days of Palestine World Health Organisation says that an illegal Israeli settler in West Bank consumes…
UN Takes First Concrete Step To Hold Israel Accountable For Violating Palestinian Human Rights
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, shakes hand with delegates before the opening of the 36th…
The “Apolitical” Approach to Palestine’s Water Crisis
by Muna Dajani Overview Earlier this month, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) announced a new deal in which Israel will…
BDS Movement Counts Successes for 2016
(Photo: A campaigner in the West Bank puts up a poster in support of a campaign during Ramadan encouraging people to…
Adalah: Stop Cutting Water Supply to West Bank Palestinians
Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, sent a letter to senior Israeli government, military and water…
Qarawah Water Apartheid
21st June 2016 | IWPS | Deir Istiya, occupied Palestine When Aziz ‘Aasee, the mayor of Qarawah Bani Hassan village…
Mekerot’s West Bank Water War Continues
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah issued a statement decrying Israeli national water company Mekorot’s decision to cut off water supplies to…
PCBS: “Israel Controls More than 85% of the Land of Historical Palestine”
This is a special statistical bulletin by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) on the 68th Anniversary of the…
Israel Denies Water Access to More Palestinian Villages
During the hottest month of the year, the Israeli occupation has cut off water from three more Palestinian villages in…
Israel cuts water to Palestinian village, causing deaths of hundreds of farm animals
As an exceptionally hot summer heatwave continues to drain the region’s water supplies, this week Israeli water company Mekorot took…
Qalqilia Protests Water Deprivation by Israeli Authorities
Dozens of Palestinian residents of the occupied West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum staged a sit-in, on Wednesday, to protest…
BDS 2014 Roundup
For Palestinians and people of conscience everywhere, 2014 will be remembered as the year in which Israel carried out its…
West Bank: Israeli Forces Close Agricultural Roads, Confiscate Water Pipes
Israeli forces, on Thursday, closed agricultural roads in Idhna and confiscated water pipes from al-Baq‘a, located respectively to the west…
As Israeli Violations Escalate, BDS Gains International Momentum
With settler attacks on the rise across the West Bank and historic Palestine, and military incursions escalating throughout the occupied…
$170m Loss for Israeli Water Firm as BDS Spreads Southward
In the latest success for the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, authorities in Buenos Aires, Argentina,…
Boycott Roundup: US Tear Gas-maker CSI Urged To Cancel Israel Sales
Four activist groups in the US are calling on a tear gas manufacturer to stop providing its products to the…
Israeli Military Destroys Palestinian Village
The Israeli military demolished an entire village in the Jordan Valley after declaring it within a closed military zone.The Israeli…
Homemade shells fired at the Negev, child seriously injured
An Israeli medical source reported on Friday that four family members, including a child, were injured, on Friday afternoon, in…
Settlers create territorial contiguity with ‘connecting outposts’
Until a few years ago, the small settlement of Harasha in the western part of the northern West Bank was…