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According to an Amnesty International report, Israel is ‘using its “total control” over water supplies to discriminate against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.’ “Water is a basic need and a right, but for many Palestinians obtaining even poor quality, subsistence-level quantities of water has become a luxury that they can barely [...]

Israel has forcefully claimed two houses in East Jerusalem by evicting nine Palestinian families in the middle of the night. Jewish settlers have moved after Israeli police force carried out operation in the dark and evicted some 53 residents. UK government and UN have condemned the incident. Police it seems arrived in black riot gear and carried out [...]

A confidential EU report reveals that the Israeli government has been illegally occupying East Jerusalem and settlers continue to evict Palestinians and build houses. There are an estimated 200,000 Jews settled in east Jerusalem and most houses of Palestinians are demolished on charges of being built illegally. The EU report states that the demolitions [...]