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<h1 class="gmail-single_title">Euro-Med: Israel uses water as a weapon of its genocide crime</h1>
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<p>GENEVA, (PIC)</p>
<p>Israel is using water as another weapon against Palestinian civilians
by deliberately reducing the amount of water available to them,
especially potable water sources, imposing famine, and purposefully
causing the death of over 2.3 million people as part of its genocide
war, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor revealed in a new press release
issued on Thursday.</p>
<p>The Euro-Med field team observed significant damage to a desalination
plant in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, as a result
of direct Israeli targeting. This also resulted in the killing of a
young man who was filling a gallon with water and the wounding of other
individuals.</p>
<p>The station, which provided services to at least 50,000 people in
several nearby residential neighborhoods, sustained significant damage
after being bombed by the Israeli army with a GBU missile that broke
through multiple stories and detonated on the first floor.</p>
<p>As summer temperatures rise, the people of the Gaza Strip are facing
significant challenges in getting access to water, the statement reads.</p>
<p>Estimates show that since October of last year, the per capita share
of water in the Gaza Strip has decreased by 97% due to the extensive
destruction of water infrastructure. As a result of the war, the per
capita share of water in the Strip has decreased to between 3 and 15
liters per day, while in 2022 it was approximately 84.6 liters per day.</p>
<p>Continued destruction and devastation by the Israeli army renders the
Gaza Strip unlivable, particularly after destroying nine out of ten
water tanks and half of the water networks, or 350 km out of 700 km.</p>
<p>According to UN estimates, about 96 percent of the population in the
Gaza Strip (2.15M people) face high levels of acute food insecurity.
While the whole territory is classified in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), over
495,000 people (22 percent of the population) are still facing
catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 5). In this
phase, households experience an extreme lack of food, starvation, and
exhaustion of coping capacities.</p>
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