Settlers destroy natural spring used by Palestinians for farming near Salfit

180,000 to 200,000 Palestinians are denied access to running water completely - they only get water by buying it, and buying it is getting much more expensive because with the checkpoints, roadblocks and so on its become much more difficult to deliver water. Some families according to Amnesty are spending 25% of their income on drinking water, 25% - imagine it in your income and then you figure it out.

But in Gaza its the worst, in Gaza 90-95% of the water supply has been contaminated, there is no good drinking water in Gaza, you can only drink contaminated water unless you are rich enough to buy the bottled water 'smuggled' through the tunnels.

Another aspect that Amnesty talks about in its report is ethnic cleansing, they don't mention the word 'ethnic cleansing' but they say Israel is deliberately denying access to water in so-called area C. The West Bank is divided in to areas A, B and C. C is under full Israeli control and it happens that 60% of the land of the West Bank is in area C. Most of the water resources are in area C, pure luck. And Israel completely controls that and Palestinians are not allowed access to water there in order to push Palestinians out of area C, where their land and water reserves are. So even Amnesty has reached the conclusion that this is a deliberate policy meant to expel the Palestinians out of those areas. This a very serious accusation from an organisation like Amnesty.

One quote in the Amnesty report by a Palestinian villager in Sousia, near Khalil (Hebron), she says 'water is life, without water we cannot live, not us, not the animals, not the plants. Before we had some water, but after the army destroyed everything, we have to bring water from far away - its very difficult and expensive. They make our life very difficult to make us leave.' Precisely, the only point is to make them leave.