Water Theft

Stop the Wall: World Bank acknowledges failures in Red Sea – Dead Sea Channel project

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The Palestinian Stop the Wall Campaign welcomes the fact that the World Bank management has acknowledged the concerns raised by the Stop the Wall Campaign, the Palestinian Farmers Union and the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in their Inspection Request  to the World Bank regarding the Dead Sea Water Conveyance Study Program as “legitimate”.

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Irrigation Water Cut-off in Ayn al-Beida Village

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Mekorot, the Israeli water company has stopped pumping irrigation water to Ayn al-Beida village in the northern Jordan valley yesterday morning. The village still remains without irrigation water today.

On the same day the occupation forces attacked the village and raided homes in a search that began under the pretext of theft of surrounding settlers' property. This property theft pretext has been used many times by the occupation forces even though it has been proven in the past that thefts occur between the settlers themselves.

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Request Filed for Further Inspection of the Read Sea - Dead Sea Water Conveyance Program

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In July 2011, three civil society organizations filed a complaint with the World Bank's Inspection Panel regarding the Bank's studies for the Red Sea - Dead Sea Water Conveyance project that aims to divert water to the Dead Sea, which has been shrinking for years. The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (Stop the Wall Campaign) and the Palestinian Farmers Union argue that the World Bank should be considering other alternatives which are less socially and environmentally harmful a

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Realities threatening the agricultural sector and Palestinian food sovereignty

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Since the Palestinian Authority was established in 1995, several projects have been launched to build the institutional framework of the Palestinian economy, so as to provide the economic basis of an independent Palestinian state. Fourteen years later, a Palestinian state with the ’67 borders has become a mirage; the economy in the West Bank is completely strangled by the apartheid infrastructure imposed by Israel, while Gaza lies in ruins as a result of over 18 months of siege and bombardments.

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Defending Palestinian Food Sovereignty against Occupation and Expulsion

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