Oxfam accuses Israel of 'weaponising water' in Gaza

A recent report by Oxfam accuses Israel of weaponising water in Gaza, highlighting a dramatic reduction in water supply by 94 percent. The NGO notes that most water facilities are in ruins, with Israel persistently obstructing the delivery of aid to the Strip.

Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports from Deir al Balah in central Gaza.

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[adammsa]

Do not be upset if your comment was deleted from this platform, , 160 journalists were deleted from earth since the beginning of this last conflict..

[ibrahimkadir]

Israeli very afraid the Palestinian children.

[uzeirdalip]

Our corrupt politicians choose money and power over humanity.

[greatshimrkarbala]

Qatar king must provide refuge to Palestinians in his Palace 😢

[jonasstenbacka]

How can the entire Muslim world watch videos like this and still decide to remain inept, impudent and negligent when the Palestinians suffer horrendously?

[MYInteriorArchitect]

اللهم إني أعوذ برضاك من سخطك، وبمعافاتك من عقوبتك، وأعوذ بك منك، لا أحصي ثناء عليك، أنت كما أثنيت على نفسك

[coleengoodell]

The Israeli authorities made clear, open, public and repeated statements that they intended to do this at the very beginning of this conflict and they have. Their own mouths have condemned them.

[porridge]

MYTH Israel “occupies” the West Bank.
FACT Israel’s international legal claim to the land goes back to the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which recognized the Jewish right to a “national home” in Palestine. This position was reiterated in the San Remo Resolution (April 1920), the Treaty of Sevres (Art. 95, Aug. 1920), the Mandate for Palestine (Art. 6, July 1922), the Anglo-American Treaty (Dec. 1925), and Israel’s admission to the UN in 1949. 
The hypocrisy of critics of Israel’s administration of the West Bank is compounded by the fact that other disputed territories are not considered occupied by the party that controls them; example: regions of Kashmir, Cyprus, and Tibet.
Occupation = foreign control of an area under another state's previous sovereignty. In the West Bank, there was no legitimate sovereign because Jordan had illegally occupied the territory from 1948 to 1967. The Palestinians never demanded an end to Jordanian occupation and the creation of a Palestinian state. They also never called for the end of the Egyptian occupation of the Gaza Strip.

An occupier is a nation that attacks another and then retains the territory it conquers. One that gains territory while defending itself is not in the same category. This is the situation with Israel, which told King Hussein that if Jordan stayed out of the 1967 War, Israel would not fight against him. Hussein ignored the warning and attacked Israel. While fending off the assault and driving out the invading Jordanian troops, Israel came to control the West Bank.
By rejecting Arab demands that Israel be required to withdraw from all the territories won in 1967, UN Security Council Resolution 242 acknowledged that Israel was entitled to claim at least part of these lands for new defensible borders.
Since the Oslo Accords, the case for tagging Israel as an occupying power has been further weakened because Israel transferred virtually all civilian authority in the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority. Israel retained the power to control its external security and that of its citizens, but 98% of the Palestinian population in the West Bank, and 100% in Gaza, came under the PA’s authority.
Israel has been forced to maintain a military presence in the territories has been governed by the Palestinians’ unwillingness to end violence against Israel.

[richardhawkins]

Why do the men not go and get water only women and children have they no shame poor children 😢

[Johnverse]

Why don't the neighboring islamist nations help with water, food, shelter & medicine ???

[adammsa]

Israel security establishment agreed on ceasefire, it is only Netanyahu who prevent it, leading to a tension between Netanyahu and the head of Mossad.

[Erwanbst]

So heavy bad conditions, so sad 😢 how do the elderlies survive this ?

[ceiplxt]

It's a war and you expect the aggressed ones to support the aggressors with food and water?

[cobebelknap]

Free Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Hati, Kenya

[adammsa]

Netanyahu said No ceasefire, a reality his own people should act upon it..

[muzzatbuzz]

It’s too difficult for Ummati to arrange water 😡😡

[AIDA.K.]

Slobodna Gaza zauvjek od cionista.inshallah

[WeFixMobiles-mz]

76 year long apartheid, 17 year long blockade of Gaza and now committing genocide. Pure evil

O my word did gaza not see this coming they started the war were they not prepared for this