21/06/2016, 00.01AM Jerusalem time Press release As summer approaches, thousands of people in the West Bank – like every year - are left with no water by the Israeli national water company Mekorot...
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EWASH Advocacy Task Force – (August 18, 2015)
One year on 120,000 people across the Gaza Strip are still disconnected from the water network. One year since the ceasefire that ended the summer 2014 war on Gaza, the water and sanitation (WASH)...
Wish We could postpone winter
Since the start of the Israeli assault on Gaza on 8 July 2014, the water and waste water infrastructure in Gaza has been heavily affected by Israeli airstrikes. It has now been six months since the...
Young Palestinians clean Gaza beach
21 September, 2014, Gaza City Over 60 young Palestinians in Gaza took to the beach on Sunday, to collect trash as part of the International Coastal Clean-Up day in an event organised by EWASH, a...
Improving access to water for communities in Area C
The dire water situation in Massafer Bani Na’im Massafer Bani Na’im is a rural Palestinian village located east of Hebron and scattered around Area B and C. The village counts up to 3500 people,...
Gaza Water Disaster: Damages to Water Infrastructure (08.07.2014 to 05.08.2014)
Please refer to the attached Infographic.
EWASH warns of an imminent water crisis in Gaza
Since the start of the Israeli assault on Gaza on 8 July 2014, the water and wastewater infrastructure in Gaza has been heavily affected by Israeli airstrikes. Main water supply and wastewater...
EWASH calls on Israel to ensure adequate access to clean water in East Jerusalem
Over the past three weeks, tens of thousands of Palestinians have lived without an adequate supply of running water in East Jerusalem. Approximately 50.000-60.000 people have been affected by water...
Near 13,000 citizens urge the European Parliament to take action on water for Gaza
Brussels, 20 March 2014 On the occasion of World Water Day 2014, a petition calling for urgent action to address Gaza’s growing water crisis, signed by over 12.784 people worldwide including citizens...
25 organizations call for an end to demolitions of Palestinian homes and obstruction of aid
The Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes and property and the number of Palestinians displaced by these demolitions reached a five-yearhigh in 2013. Throughout the period of peace negotiations in...
PNGO and Human Rights Organizations Calls for Immediately Ending Suffering of Civilians Due to Electricity Outages
27 November, 2013 The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO) and human rights organizations in the Gaza Strip express their deep concern for the deteriorating humanitarian...
WASH Cluster oPt Monthly Situation Report - Number 55, 31 May 2013
Headlines Indications of low funding for WASH humanitarian response under CAP 2013 noted with only 7% of the appeal actually realized and 27% provisionally approved. In May 2013, a total of 42...
Case study: salt water damages Palestinian plants in Gaza
Samir Al-Attar, age 40, owns two dunams of land in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip. He grows fruits and vegetables. For years, Samir used an old agricultural well to irrigate his plot...
Hung out to dry – 20 years of denying Palestinian water rights
13 September, 2013 marks the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords. Since then, Palestinians have come no closer to achieving their basic water rights. In the West Bank,...
Israel Cuts Off Water Supply to 10 Villages Northwest of Jerusalem (Al Wafa)
JERUSALEM, April 1, 2013 (WAFA) – The Israeli authorities Monday completely cut off the water supply to ten villages located northwest of Jerusalem, according to a local official. Yousef al-Faqeeh,...
Not Enough Water in the West Bank?
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Thousands remain without water, power one month after attack on Gaza (Electronic Intifada)
28 december 2012 by Eva Bartlett On 17 November, four days into Israel’s eight-day assault on the Gaza Strip, deputy Israeli Prime Minister Eli Yishai publicly called for the Israeli army to “blow...
Aid agencies call for halt to recurring demolitions of water cisterns in Area C
Action Against Hunger (ACF); ActionAid; American Friends Service Committee (AFSC); Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz (ACPP); CARE; Comitato Internazionale Sviluppo dei Popoli (CISP); Christian...
Water & Sanitation in the Access Restricted Areas of the Gaza Strip - Fact Sheet 13
Key Facts 113,000 people are affected by the Israeli restrictions in the ARA Farming is the main source of income for the majority of families in the ARA Approximately 35% of Gaza’s cultivable land...
WASH Cluster oPt Monthly Situation Report - Number 52, 31 October 2012
Headlines 26 WASH project proposals worth 17,680,292 USD were accepted for inclusion in the 2013 Consolidated Appeal Process. In October 2012, a total of 710 truck load of WASH material entered Gaza,...