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Palestinians collect drinking water in Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip, April 10, 2025. (Ruwaida Amer)

Bombing plants, severing pipelines: Israel pushes Gaza water crisis to the brink

Since March, the army's intensified targeting of water infrastructure has left Gazans no choice but to drink seawater and ration contaminated supplies.

By Ibtisam Mahdi April 23, 2025

Palestinians walk next to destroyed buildings and pools with stagnant water in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 19, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘The polio vaccine is effective, but delivering it requires a ceasefire’

With Palestinians in Gaza fearing a polio outbreak, health workers warn Israel’s ongoing military offensive will severely hamper efforts to counter it.

By Ruwaida Amer August 27, 2024

A rooftop water tank in Kufr 'Aqab, July 24, 2024. (Noa Pinto)

The taps have run dry in Jerusalem’s largest Palestinian neighborhood

Long neglected by the Jerusalem Municipality, Kufr ‘Aqab residents now receive only a few hours of water a week — and the authorities refuse to help.

By Noa Pinto August 15, 2024

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Displaced Palestinians living in tents shelter in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, August 4, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

The daily battles to survive the Gaza genocide

Making tents out of aid parachutes, waiting days for a tin of beans, re-digging graves to bury more martyrs: here's what Palestinians have to overcome.

By Yousef Aljamal August 14, 2024

Palestinians collect drinking water in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 23, 2023. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

In Gaza, Israel has turned water into a weapon of mass destruction

By denying Palestinians safe water since the war began, Israel has created an unparalleled health crisis and risks causing irreversible ecological damage.

By Nancy Murray and Amahl Bishara January 16, 2024

Families react to Palestinian family members having been killed in Israeli airstrikes during recent fighting between Israel-Gaza. October 9, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Operation ‘A Thousand Eyes for an Eye’ is underway in Gaza

With Israel cutting off food, water, and power supplies, the dehumanization of the strip's population is complete — laying the groundwork for what's to come.

By Amir Rotem October 11, 2023

Palestinian woman using a water pipe in Masafer Yatta, in the West Bank, May 10, 2022. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

In hottest summer ever, Masafer Yatta sears from water apartheid

Across the West Bank, Palestinians and Israeli settlers have very different access to water resources — even when they live on the same hill.

By Basel Adra August 13, 2023

Israeli forces demolish a home in the village of Khalet al-Daba, South Hebron Hills, August 11, 2021.

A broken ankle, a demolished home, and a crushed water cistern

In one day last summer, three Palestinian brothers in the South Hebron Hills paid the price for Israeli forces’ entry into their village.

By Ali Awad February 15, 2022

A Palestinian farmer fills water tanks in the West Bank village of Khirbet al-Makhoul, Jordan Valley, October 9, 2013. (Activestills.org)

The brutality of denying water to Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills

For the past 15 years, I have witnessed how the Israeli army cuts Palestinian communities from accessing water in order to expel them and take their land.

By Daphne Banai September 24, 2021

Israelis walk across the light rail tracks in Jerusalem, September 8, 2015, as a sand storm hits Israel. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From heat waves to ‘eco-apartheid’: Climate change in Israel-Palestine

While Israel's nascent climate justice movement tries to get the public's attention, Palestinians under occupation remain the most vulnerable to the dangerous effects of climate change.

By Matan Kaminer, Basma Fahoum and Edo Konrad August 8, 2019

A Palestinian woman examines the damage caused to her house after Israeli forces demolished it, Al Hadidiya, Jordan Valley, West Bank, October 11, 2018. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

WATCH: What occupation looks like in the occupied Jordan Valley

Palestinian residents of the Jordan Valley are forced on a daily basis to cope with Israel’s arbitrary military policies, from imposing restrictions on movement to home demolitions to a lack of access to water — all while Israeli settlers living on the same land face none of the same issues.

By Social TV June 11, 2019

A Palestinian child fills plastic bottles and jerry cans with drinking water from a public tap at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, November 28 ,2012. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Gaza’s humanitarian crisis began long before Hamas

The deliberate suffocation of Gaza began in the 90s, when the first restrictions on the movement of Palestinians were introduced. By Amir Rotem A macabre drama has been playing out every Friday along the border fence separating the Gaza Strip and Israel, complete with live broadcasts, press coverage, commentary, and even real-time spectators. An armed military stands on…

By +972 Magazine April 11, 2018

Lorde performs at Lollapalooza in 2014. (Liliane Callegari/CC BY 2.0)

This Israeli urges Lorde: Play Palestine instead

Instead of simply canceling your show in Tel Aviv, cross the checkpoints and the separation wall and do what most pop icons have yet to do: perform in the West Bank. An open letter to Lorde. Dear Lorde, You may have stumbled upon my words before. Three years ago, your art and public persona inspired…

By Yuval Ben-Ami December 24, 2017