Water and freedom are commodities that Palestinians are sorely lacking. Israel is building barricades in the sea, shooting at fishermen, and denying access to fresh water.
Gaza desperately needs power for fresh water production. The EU donated a new solar energy field to do the job, but Israeli restrictions keep it from being used.
It’s not just Palestinian houses that are demolished by Israel. This week it was irrigation pipelines. No warning – just a bulldozer accompanied by Israeli army.
A river of sewage water runs through Palestinian farmland: a story of sabotage, land theft, and violence.
The figure refers only to direct war costs — the immediate budgetary costs directly tied to the war, including operations, personnel, and matériel.
The fundamentals won’t change: Iran can threaten Hormuz, The United States can punish Iran, and neither can secure its objectives through force.
Representative Ro Khanna was barred from leaving for 90 minutes, as Israeli soldiers helped the settlers. “We really saw the apartheidlike conditions, the inequality. No American would support this if they knew the details of what was going on here,” Kanna said.
One morning, the Hathaleen family of Umm al-Khair discovered that their outhouse had fallen within the illegally expanding boundaries of the nearby Carmel settlement. Then the IDF made things even worse. The family now has to cross the road to use the neighbors’ toilet
“For the past year and a half, every step we take outside our homes has been calculated,” the head of one household tells us. “We don’t leave except out of necessity. We take turns keeping watch.”
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