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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, toldÃÂ ...
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 theÃÂ ...
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 deliberateÃÂ ...
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 factÃÂ ...
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 andÃÂ ...
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 byÃÂ ...
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 2018ÃÂ ...
Voice of America
February 23, 2018
The fighting caused heavy damage to many buildings, roads and other infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. Now, Israel ... Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has increased pressure on Hamas by cutting wages of public servants and limiting electricity. He hopes his ... Public water supplies are undrinkable.
Financial Post
February 22, 2018
The national government has been playing politics with water, hoping it might lead to the DA's downfall if the party is seen to have mismanaged the water issue on its watch. However the water-supply infrastructure is a national government obligation, not a provincial one. The ANC government, focusedÃÂ ...
Palestine Herald Press
February 15, 2018
The most recent reservoir built for municipal supply was Lake Gilmer in northeast Texas, completed in 1999, said Matt Nelson, assistant deputy executive administrator of water supply and infrastructure for the Texas Water Development Board. Nelson said that “quite a few,” reservoir sites have beenÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
February 15, 2018
However, despite the fact that under the Accord Israel is allocated four times the Palestinian portion of water resources, it has been revealed that ... But once again, these deficiencies fall squarely on the shoulders of the Israeli government, which is wholly responsible for Gaza's electricity and water supply.
ReliefWeb
February 12, 2018
In 2017, a chronic humanitarian and protection crisis continued to affect Palestinian children and families, as tensions escalated in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The energy ... the end of the year. This had a direct impact on the delivery of services, including health, water and sanitation, and education.
Palestine Herald Press
February 5, 2018
The re-emergence of geosmin in the water supply is a naturally-occurring compound. It is not ... For example, the City of Palestine has not budgeted, or even considered budgeting, $40,000 for flowers in our parks. A Reagan ... These funds cannot legally be used for water and sewer infrastructure. FinallyÃÂ ...
TheTower.org
February 2, 2018
There was an interesting news item this week. At the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee to address the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, Israel presented a $1 billion plan to address Gaza's crumbling infrastructure. The plan was presented by Israel, not by the Palestinian Authority, who is supposed to ruleÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
January 29, 2018
In 2017, daily power outages lasting for up to 20 hours devastated public infrastructure and disrupted the delivery of basic services. The signing of the Palestinian reconciliation agreement between the West Bank and Gaza in October 2017 has not yet yielded improvements for children. In the West Bank,ÃÂ ...
Axios
January 20, 2018
Cape Town's mayoral committee member for water, Xanthea Limberg, said the city's taps are expected to go dry by April 22, per Reuters. .... Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat sent a long and pessimistic preview of the Trump peace plan to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and members of theÃÂ ...
Green Left Weekly
January 18, 2018
The infrastructure of occupation appeared around Nabi Saleh to “contain” Palestinian responses to the establishment of the adjacent Halamish settlement in 2009. Land for that settlement was stolen from Palestine. Roads built on that stolen land are for Israeli settlers only. As the water spring is now forÃÂ ...
Irish Times
January 10, 2018
Turning Havat Gilad into a settlement would make it easier for the government to transfer funds and improve infrastructure, such as roads, electricity and water for the community. The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas issued a statement praising the attack. “We bless the heroic Nablus operation whichÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
January 8, 2018
Storm weather conditions during the winter months, including heavy rain, can create floods in the streets of the Gaza Strip due to poor and overcrowded urban infrastructure that cannot handle the rate and volume of water. In partnership with the UNRWA logistics team, the UNRWA Area Offices in Gaza'sÃÂ ...
CNN
January 4, 2018
Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) Outside the Ramallah Elementary School in Beirut's Shatila refugee camp, Palestinian mothers wait for the clock to hit noon. Overhead, electric wires crisscross with water tubes. A mural of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock adorns the outer walls of the school as the blue United NationsÃÂ ...
Redress Information & Analysis
January 3, 2018
As for talk about Israel giving up the West Bank for a Palestinian state: “If it wasn't so sad it would be funny. ... and feeling comfortable with blowing hundreds of children to smithereens, maiming thousands more, trashing vital infrastructure such as hospitals, schools, power plants and clean water supplies,ÃÂ ...
International Middle East Media Center
January 3, 2018
A Palestinian was injured by bullet shrapnel on Tuesday, during clashes which broke out with Israeli soldiers in Salem village, to the east of Nablus, ... electricity supply by destroying the electricity infrastructure, and in 2009, settlers constructed a barbed wire fence around a water spring which served asÃÂ ...
Honestreporting.com
January 3, 2018
Hiba Khan's column in The independent entitled “Everything wrong with the reaction to Ahed Tamimi's prosecution for slapping an Israeli soldier, ” takes a defensive position toward Tamimi, which is permissible in a column: it is after all, an opinion piece. However, even an opinion columnist may not crossÃÂ ...
BBC News
January 3, 2018
Palestinian officials have dismissed as "blackmail" Donald Trump's threat to cut US aid over what he called their unwillingness to negotiate with Israel. ... In addition, it is the largest single donor to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Unrwa), providing $368m in 2016.
Mondoweiss
January 2, 2018
The trauma of being Palestinian ... A chain of mountains covered in pure white, trees extending beyond the reach of the eye, blue bodies of water mixed in with the white, brown and green. ... I left Palestine once again in August to attend graduate school in the United States, but Palestine never leaves me.
Red Herring
December 31, 2017
Palestine's tech sector is not a new phenomenon. Its universities are ... That makes sense for an occupied territory where even the water supply can cause an international row. Average pay for ... Sadara Ventures, for example, is the “first venture capital firm targeting the Palestinian tech sector.” It will investÃÂ ...
Palestine Herald Press
December 29, 2017
In May, Presley announced 14 priorities, including improving streets, rebuilding infrastructure, and expanding education opportunities. “As mayor, there are many positive changes I would like to see for Palestine,” Presley said. “It will take all of us working together — community members, city staff, volunteerÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
December 29, 2017
“When Palestine refugee mothers are forced to seal their infants in closets while clouds of tear gas saturate their shelter, the situation has gone too far,” ... The frequency of exposure to tear gas, coupled with a lack of healthcare facilities in the camp, fragile infrastructure, and the cost of material such as gasÃÂ ...
Reliefweb
December 20, 2017
The most vulnerable Palestinians are currently denied or restricted in their access to essential services such as water and health care. A recurrent cycle of shocks, natural and manmade, has eroded the resilience of vulnerable households to cope with the prolonged nature of the humanitarian crisis.
Anadolu Agency
December 16, 2017
Palestine is among the top beneficiaries of TIKA, receiving 30 percent its total aid to the Middle East and African regions. In the West Bank city of Bethlehem a ... water for around 500 people. In 2015, fuel was sent to Gaza to relieve energy shortages resulting from infrastructure damage due to Israeli attacks.
Mintpress News (blog)
December 11, 2017
Israel-Palestine is a small place, with limited natural resources. During the Mandatory period, it was developed as a single state with an integrated infrastructure of roads, railways, water supplies, power, etc. Management of this infrastructure jointly by two sovereign governments, with a history of conflict,ÃÂ ...
Reliefweb
December 3, 2017
The LGPA report focused on outcomes in the four basic services provided by LGUs: water supply, sewage, solid waste collection, and local roads. Key findings show that access to services is relatively high, even in comparison to other countries in the region. This is a remarkable achievement, particularlyÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
I'll say it for the millionth time: The only near-term solution is to pipe water into Gaza from Israel and the West Bank, without haggling over the price or waiting for the Palestinian reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas. Seven million to 10 million cubic meters a year is like pouring a cup of water into aÃÂ ...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
On Sunday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sharply attacked Mr Trump's Middle East peace efforts, saying he would not accept any peace plan from ... The Palestine Liberation Organization, an umbrella group for Palestinian factions, tweeted that the Trump administration seemed to be following anÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
About 95 percent of Gazas water is undrinkable. Hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of sewage flow into the Mediterranean daily, reaching Israels shores as well. Theres a bit more electricity available now – up to six or seven hours a day, thanks to a decision by the Palestinian Authority to go back toÃÂ ...
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
November 16, 2017
Israeli settlements hurt Palestinian livelihoods ... Arabs decided to settle in what was at that time Mandatory Palestine. ... communities to connect to electricity and water infrastructure meant for nearby Israeli settlements. Jubbet ...
The Yale Politic
November 3, 2017
Water: From Thales to Israeli-Palestinian Apartheid ... Palestine would be hard-pressed to build its own wells and divert its own water. ... Israel controls most of this area, including the infrastructure that the Bedouin tribes need ...
Daily Sabah
November 1, 2017
Palestinian envoy praises Ankara's stance, backing for unity gov't ... Palestine appreciates Ankara's stance shown toward the people of Palestine and welcomes its ... social projects in infrastructure, administrative infrastructure, education, emergency, health, production, renovation and water and sanitation.
SalemNews.net
October 31, 2017
EAST PALESTINE — Improving the village's infrastructure and ... good repair, modern water production and wastewater treatment facilities, and ...
Al-Monitor
October 31, 2017
US project aims to improve water access for Palestinian farmers ... The US government invests in water and wastewater infrastructure to ...
ReliefWeb
October 25, 2017
Palestine refugees and UNRWA staff appreciate the support of the European Union ... Before these welcome contributions, the infrastructure of the camp was in disrepair, leading to water shortage, ... and a new water supply and drainage system was completed',” she added. ... occupied Palestinian territory ...
Reliefweb
October 23, 2017
Israel had also deprived Palestine World Trade Organization (WTO) benefits ... said Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territory and Syrian Golan had .... to vital infrastructure, including water pipelines, sewage networks and ...
Haaretz
October 22, 2017
... of the Green Line) to the national electricity and water infrastructure. ... the Palestinian communities to the water and electrical infrastructure, ...
Middle East Monitor
September 14, 2017
B'Tselem notes that “Israel impedes the development of new Palestinian water infrastructure, destroys and confiscates existing infrastructure,ÃÂ ...
B'Tselem
September 13, 2017
The municipality also directs some of the city's water supply to local villages ... In 2014, Palestinian water consumption in the West Bank was about 80 ... Israel impedes the development of new Palestinian water infrastructure,ÃÂ ...
i24NEWS
September 12, 2017
According to the report, the Palestinian economy will continue to ... in infrastructure, healthcare, education, energy, water and sanitation in GazaÃÂ ...
+972 Magazine
September 11, 2017
Ein al-Beida is one of only a few Palestinian villages in the Jordan Valley area ... an Israeli decision to cut off the water supply to their village for over a week. ... own wells or connect unauthorized connections to existing water infrastructure. ... ownership of the Palestinian water infrastructure to the company.
Reliefweb
September 5, 2017
The water supply in the Gaza Strip is estimated at 90 l/c/d, below ... Water Utilities (MWU) and the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) hasÃÂ ...
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