Global surge of water-related violence led by Israeli attacks on Palestinian supplies – report by Nina Lakhani

Israeli attacks on Palestinian water supplies in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip accounted for a quarter of all water-related violence in 2023, as armed conflicts over dwindling resources surged globally, according to new research.

… In November, Israeli airstrikes partially destroyed solar panels and other infrastructure providing energy for the EU-supported Gaza Central wastewater treatment plant, which served 1 million people. In another attack, the Israeli military began pumping seawater into Hamas’s tunnel complex in an effort to destroy the clandestine transport and communications system, an action that risked “ruining the basic conditions for life in Gaza” – an element of the crime of genocide, a senior hydrologist told the Guardian in December.