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14 Sep 2016- 10:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent TEL AVIV, Israel The Israeli Knesset’s subcommittee for Judea and Samaria saw a dispute this week about establishment of a wastewater plant near the Rimonim community in Samaria that will be funded by the German government. There has been local Israeli
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13 Oct 2014- 10:45 by OOSKAnews Correspondent JERUSALEM International rights watchdog Human Rights Watch today called on the United Nations and donor countries participating in a conference on providing assistance to the Palestinians to pressure Israel to stop “unjustified restrictions” on people
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5 Jun 2014- 10:04 by OOSKAnews Correspondent JERUSALEM, Israel Some 60,000 to 80,000 Palestinians living in East Jerusalem have gone without clean, piped drinking water for more than 60 days, according to Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem. The areas affected include the Shuafat Refugee
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18 Apr 2014- 09:47 by Local Press Report JERUSALEM Bloomberg The current water shortage in Arab East Jerusalem is only the latest water crisis facing Arab areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, representatives from regional security, environmental and human rights organizations told Bloomberg BNA.
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A joint Arab-Israeli study is investigating the effects of pharmaceutical residues in Israel’s water.
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Israel’s Ministry of the Environment released a statement on February 12 saying it does not support the controversial Red Sea-Dead Sea conduit in the form that the World Bank has proposed.
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A new Palestinian report claims that Israel has withheld $42 million USD in tax revenues owed to the Palestinian Authority in order to pay for construction and management of wastewater treatment plants.
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Palestinian media this week reported new cases of Israeli settlers and the Government of Israel destroying Palestinian water wells and agricultural lands.
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30 May 2012- 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent Israel, JERUSALEM The failure of Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority to agree on rehabilitating the heavily polluted lower Jordan River basin has led international investors to turn to a non-governmental organization (NGO). Trilateral
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23 May 2011- 12:23 by Local Press Report JERUSALEM Palestine News Network Palestinian Water Authority head Dr. Shaddad Attili hailed the report released earlier this month by human rights group B’Tselem titled “Exploitation and Dispossession: Israeli Policy in the Jordan Valley and North of the
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12 Apr 2010- 14:46 by Local Press Report Jordan, JERUSALEM The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) Recent laboratory analysis confirmed the presence of two types of organisms found only in human feces in the Jordan River, as well as a third, unidentified organism. "Two lactose-positive organisms
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12 Jan 2009- 13:46 by Local Press Report PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, JERUSALEM Jewish Telegraphic Agency (United States)/International Middle East Media Center Israel-based human rights groups have petitioned the country's Supreme Court to demand that Israel act to stop the collapse of Gaza's
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9 Nov 2008- 19:24 by Local Press Report Israel, JERUSALEM Ha'aretz (Israel) Israel's ministerial committee on the non-Jewish sector decided November 2 to connect tens of thousands of illegally built Arab homes in East Jerusalem to the water supply. The decision came after representatives
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7 Jul 2008- 14:47 by Local Press Report Israel, JERUSALEM The Jerusalem Post (Israel) Israel's national water company, Mekorot, has denied reports by the human rights group B 'Tselem that it has created a severe water shortage in the West Bank through discriminatory policies. Mekorot said
