How Israel’s restrictions have turned water into a matter of life and death in Gaza.
Israel is using access to water as a weapon of war and a tool of collective punishment against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, Medecins Sans Frontieres has said in a new report. The aid group and other organizations have also given warning that families face dehydration and disease.
Meanwhile, small children haul water containers nearly as heavy as themselves over long distances from distribution points run by nongovernmental organizations — in freezing cold and scorching heat — still unable to meet even a fraction of their families’ need for clean water.
