In many settlements in the Hebron governorate - water allocation only once a week
Once again everyone witnessed the injustice named “back-to-back” in the Israeli army’s laundered terminology.
Once again, a bunch of ‘security guards’ and a girl-soldier did not consider that by doing so they were treating a helpless ill patient as an object, concentrating on fulfilling procedures, following orders, tediously watching every single written regulation, rather than carrying out an action of saving a life.
Once again, the members of the Red Crescent medical team appeased the armed personnel by following their instructions as quickly as possible so as not to be detained and manage to bring the patient to the designated hospital while still alive.
Once again IDs photographed, bags inspected, the colors are of the essence rather than the human being, as proven in the internal communication system’s call “passed from red to green”…
Away from there, friends residing in Bani Na’im said they have no water in their village as in many nearby villages in the Hebron district. Just one day a week in the faucets, just one day a week.
Human beings desperately need water to drink, to wash hands, take showers, clean the house, flush toilets, water the garden and more. But there is no water. Only once a week.
I know there are different committees and numerous different agreements about allotting water and the price to be paid, and I also know that Israel has sequestered all the water reservoirs in the West Bank from the Palestinians, and it alone controls this so-vital resource.
All of this does not enable one to escape the thought that in the colonies surrounding Palestinian localities water flows limitless.
We also spoke about a guy who was released from prison after half a year there, and friends who met him asked: Who is this? He was so thin they did not recognize him. That is what it’s like in Ofer. No food, Ahmad said.
