Israel Planned To Supply 40% Less Water To Palestinians Than Settlers

Israel’s water authority had planned to supply Palestinians in the West Bank with 40% less water than settlers. Yuval Steinitz , the Israeli National Infrastructure Minister has rejected as ‘unacceptable’ the propasal that would have seen the country’s national water company build more infrastructure to provide water for Jewish settlements, than for Palestinians, who are already receiving less. RT reports: In its future infrastructure plan, discussed at an unpublicized official meeting in September, the state-owned Mekorot Water Company proposed increasing the amount of water for Palestinians in the Israel-controlled West Bank from 45 cubic meters per person currently, to 65 cubic meters by 2050. In comparison, by the end of that period the Israeli settlements on the land occupied by Israel following the Six-Day War in 1967, would be receiving 40 percent more water. Details of the meeting were disclosed by the Hebrew-language news website The Marker, and cited in the Haaretz, an English-language daily. Steinitz reportedly dismissed the proposal outright, claiming that the company was violating international conventions that stipulate that it is illegal to discriminate when providing vital infrastructure on the basis of ethnicity, and forced Mekorot to draft another plan, which has not yet been presented. The company [...]

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