denny Ethnic & National book

Breaking the Thirst Water Deprivation as a Means of Ethnic Cleansing In the South Hebron Hills of Palestine, 3500 Palestinians are suffering from the most extreme lack of water. They have no water infrastructure, face high water hauling costs, and must contend with Israeli soldiers and settlers destroying their road access and even poisoning their small wells. On September 26th, 2009 some 100 activists with support from Israeli, Palestinian and international organizations formed a water convoy to deliver water as a humanitarian and political act. Background: In the South Hebron Hills, south of road no. 317, about 3500 Palestinians live at present in various forms of rural localities villages, hamlets and caves. Their livelihood consists of herding sheep and goats, dry farming and olive groves. Israel eyes this region - hundreds of thousands of dunam meaning to annex it in the future and create territorial continuity all the way to the green line around Arad-En Gedi. To realize its annexation plans, Israel wants the entire area of the South Hebron Hills clean of Palestinians, the legal owners of the land. In order to make life impossible for the residents, the authorities harass the local population in numerous different ways: administrative and court orders, house demolitions, home-cave demolitions, destruction of wells, tracks and harvests, and the declaration of vast areas as firing zones forbidden entry. The extremist Jewish settlers of the area also serve as the ...