Amira Hass Under Israeli Occupation, Water Is a Luxury
HAARETZ.COM Under Israeli occupation, water is a luxury | Opinion *** A violent gang of young settlers haunts a Palestinian village The Palestinian Authority is in meltdown – and Israel won't escape unscathed Sick Palestinian teen kept in detention because Israeli official failed to write report When I wrote my questions and asked the spokesperson’s office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories to explain the destruction of the water pipelines in the Palestinian villages southeast of Yatta, on February 13, my fingers started itching wanting to type the following question: “Tell me, aren’t you ashamed?” You may interpret it as a didactic urge, you can see it as a vestige of faith in the possibility of exerting an influence, or a crumb of hope that there’s somebody there who doesn’t automatically carry out orders and will feel a niggling doubt. But the itching in my fingers disappeared quickly. This is not the first