Home to almost two million Palestinians, the majority of whom are long term refugees, Gaza is one of the most crowded places on Earth.
The Gaza crisis, explained in eight graphics
One of the graphics:
October: Palestine in Pictures
The Electric Intifada: Nineteen photos of Palestine life
Palestine in Pictures: October 2019
A child plays during a rainstorm in an impoverished neighborhood of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, on 26 October. Mohammed ZaanounActiveStills
The Alliance's Latest Bimonthly Fact
Israel is escalating its destruction of Palestinian property in the West Bank. This year so far, destruction of wells, water cisterns, and water networks is more than double that of previous years.
In one month (July), for example, Israel executed five demolitions of wells, cisterns, and infrastructure that left Palestinian farming villages entirely without access to water. Israel ripped out kilometres of pipeline that supplied water to houses and farmland, confiscated emergency water tanks, and confiscated equipment used to install the pipes.
Earlier in the year, Israel removed a 20-km water network serving 12 Palestinian towns. Residents now must transport water in tanks on tractors along poor roads. Transported water costs Palestinians nearly four times more than Israeli settlers pay.
When hundreds of residents of one town recently protested Israel’s diversion of their water to a new illegal settlement (their land, where almost 3,000 Palestinians live, had also been stolen, and given to five settler families)—Israeli forces bombarded them with tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets, and sound bombs.
Sources: ochaopt, imemc, ISM, UN humanitarian response, imemc
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Photo from “ISM Water Series: Hail of Tear Gas on Peaceful Villagers Protesting Settler Theft of Water Supply in Kufur Malik.
An Oral History of Boston-Based Palestinian Solidarity
An oral history of Boston-based Palestine solidarity activism, compiled from interviews conducted this past summer, will be airing live on the radio program This Week in Palestine, WZBC 90.3 FM, this Sunday, November 3rd at 8:00am.
This Week In Palestine is a weekly radio broadcast, hosted by John Roberts every Sunday morning at 8:00AM in the Boston area on WZBC, 90.3 FM. It features the Palestinian narrative, the Palestinian voice which is so seldom available in the mainstream media.
You can also stream the program live online on your computer at WZBC.org. You can hear the broadcast later in the day, or at any time for the next two weeks (mid-November) through the WZBC.org homepage archive. Just go to Sunday, 8:00AM and click on listen.
You can access all of the past broadcasts online by going to our permanent archive at truthandjusticeradio.org: click on This Week in Palestine Archive.
