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Bloomberg BNA
April 20, 2018
Israel is expected to approve plans in the next two months for two new desalination plants and the expansion of five existing ones to bolster the country's freshwater supplies, some of which will be used to replenish the sea, Yuval Steinitz, minister of national infrastructure, energy and water resources, toldÃâà...
New Straits Times Online
April 20, 2018
Its residents, who are Palestinian citizens of Israel, have unsuccessfully fought the Israeli government for years to receive recognition for their home. ... for their village, which would allow it to finally be connected to the water and electrical grids, and to benefit from public infrastructure like paved roads.
ReliefWeb
April 19, 2018
Thursday 19 April, 2018, Gaza - The Government of Japan donated half-a-million US dollars to UN Women Palestine Office for a one-year project to ... The general decline in the access of people to basic services, especially water and electricity as a result of damage to infrastructure, has doubled theÃâà...
Common Dreams
April 19, 2018
What followed was a complete Israeli blockade of Gaza, creating even greater Palestinian impoverishment. Three punishing Israeli wars on Gaza (in 2008, 2012, and 2014) left over 3,800 Palestinians dead, 15,000 wounded, and an already dilapidated infrastructure even more devastated by deliberateÃâà...
CNN
April 7, 2018
"We are using water, tear gas, and other means to try to create a distance between rioters and our security fence. We use lethal means very sparingly and only against specific people who pose a real threat toward our security infrastructure," he told CNN. "It's up to Hamas and it's their responsibility. The factÃâà...
Reliefweb
April 4, 2018
At the signing ceremonies, Al-Herbish reiterated OFID's longstanding commitment to supporting the Palestinian people's legitimate national ... support to Palestine through targeting a wide array of sectors, such as micro-financing, infrastructure, education, agriculture, health and energy, as well as water andÃâà...
Xinhua
March 29, 2018
Israeli forces deployed along the eastern border of the enclave and often face Palestinian popular protests with tear gas, rubber and live bullets. ... unemployment among the 2-million population of the Gaza Strip and a severe shortage of basic services, especially electricity, drinking water and infrastructure.
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
March 27, 2018
Umm al-Hiran is one of many communities in the Naqab that lie unrecognized by Israel and are consequently deprived of basic services and infrastructure. This is not the first time Umm al-Hiran's villagers have been forcibly transferred. Prior to the Nakba – the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestinians byÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 21, 2018
By Matthias Schmale. Matthias Schmale is Director of Operations in Gaza for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. This article is part of a series of stories and op-eds launched by IPS on the occasion of World Water Day on March 22. GAZA CITY, Mar 21 2018Ãâà...
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