Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said ‘ Israel’ has been utilizing water as a weapon of war by purposely cutting the amount of water available to residents and destroying wells as well as sanitations.
Euro-Med Monitor revealed Sunday July 7th, in a press release, that through persistent, systematic, and widespread targeting of the Gaza Strip’s water sources and desalination plants, Israel is using water as a weapon against Palestinian civilians.
‘Israel’ is deliberately reducing the amount of water available to the Gazans accross the Gaza strip, potable water sources in particular, tightening the grip on over 2.3 million people who live there amid genocide; this comes at a time it starves most of the people in the enclave.
Euro-Med Monitor clarified that its field team has documented “significant damages” to a desalination plant in Gaza City’s Al-Zeitoun neighbourhood due to direct Israeli bombardment, which led to the killing of a young man and the injuring of other people. Furthermore, it prevented services to at least 50,000 people living there.
Euro-Med Monitor added that more than 700 wells and water desalination places have been destroyed since October 7.
“The lack of drinking water in the Gaza Strip has become a matter of life and death, with residents currently being forced to drink unclean well water amid continued Israeli military attacks and lack of food, water, and fuel supplies,” Euro-Med Monitor confirmed.
Significant challenges for accessing water have aggravated as summer temperatures increase, the rights group said. According to estimates, the per capita share of water in Gaza has plummeted by 97 percent because of Israeli attacks on the water infrastructure.
All parts of Gaza are experiencing a lack of water and the sewage system is collapsing, Euro-Med Monitor concluded.
Israel’s war on Gaza has so far killed 38,095 people and injured 87,705 others, according to Gaza’s health ministry, devastating infrastructure in the Palestinian enclave.
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