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<h1 class="title">Israel destroys pipelines providing water to
village in Jordan Valley</h1>
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<div class="stamp">April 27, 2017 - <font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=776708">http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=776708</a></font><br>
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NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli bulldozers destroyed all the water
pipelines providing services to the village of Bardala on Thursday
morning in the northern occupied West Bank district of Tubas. <br>
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<div>Mutaz Bisharat, a Palestinian official who monitors settlement
activity in the Jordan Valley, told Ma’an that four Israeli
bulldozers, escorted by Israeli military jeeps and officials from
Israel’s Civil Administration, destroyed all the main lines
providing Bardala with water, leaving some 3,500 residents of the
village without access to any water. <br>
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<div>Bisharat added that Israeli forces claimed that residents in
the village were stealing the water through the lines in order to
use the water for agriculture and farming. But Bisharat rejected
the accusation. <br>
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<div>Israel does not provide Palestinians with enough water,
Bisharat said, and the Israeli government has aimed to expel
Palestinians from their homes using such allegations against the
community. <br>
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<div>A spokesperson for COGAT, the agency responsible for
implementing Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian
territory, was not immediately available for comment. <br>
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<div>Earlier this year, Israeli forces <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775564"
style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">destroyed a
water pipeline</a> running between the Bedouin communities of
al-Hadidiya and al-Ras al-Ahmar in the northern Jordan Valley,
east of the Tubas district.<br>
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<div>Amnesty International estimates that up to 200,000 Palestinians
in the West Bank do not have access to running water.<br>
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<div>Meanwhile, just half of Palestinian proposals for wells and
improvement projects to the water network were approved by Israel
between 1995 and 2008, compared to a 100 percent approval rate for
Israeli projects, according to Palestinian human rights group
Al-Haq.<br>
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As a result, demolitions of Palestinian infrastructure and
residences occur frequently in areas fully controlled by the Israeli
military, known as Area C, which makes up 88 percent of the Jordan
Valley.
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