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Israel keeping Gaza parched, Amnesty International says
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A girl fills water bottles at a United Nations relief camp in Gaza on Tuesday.
Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel is denying Palestinians access to adequate water supplies by controlling shared water resources, the human rights group Amnesty International said in a report released Tuesday.
In the 100-page report, titled "Troubled Waters: Palestinians Denied Fair Access to Water," Amnesty says Israel restricts Palestinian access to water through various means while making it readily available to its own citizens.
The group accuses Israel of ignoring humanitarian and human rights laws, in violation of its obligations as the occupying power.
The report says water from the shared Israeli-Palestinian mountain aquifer is inequitably distributed, with Israel using more than 80 percent of it.
The aquifer is the sole source of water for the approximately 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank. The Israeli military has denied Palestinians access to Palestinian lands where water from the Jordan River could be accessed, the head of the Palestinian water authority told CNN.
"Since (1967) the Israeli authorities did not allow us to drill in the Western Aquifer, which is the most important shared aquifer in the West Bank," Dr. Shaddad Attili said.
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