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Jefferson23

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Fri Mar 7, 2014, 09:54 PM Mar 2014

Three days, no water for some 50,000 East Jerusalem residents

Neighborhoods are part of Jerusalem municipality but on the far side of the separation barrier.

By Nir Hasson | Mar. 7, 2014

Some 50,000 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem have been without water for three days, after their water supply was cut off on Tuesday.

The residents are from the Shoafat refugee camp and the neighborhoods of Ras Hamis, Ras Shehada and Hashalom – all within the Jerusalem municipality, and where a majority of residents having blue Israeli ID cards. However, they are on the Palestinian side of the separation fence.

Water is supplied to the area by Jerusalem’s water utility – Hagihon. The water systems were designed many years ago and are not adequate for the needs of the population, which has grown significantly in recent years

In addition, the vast majority of the buildings in the area were built without permits and the residents are not registered as customers of Hagihon.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.578460

snip* The Court notes that the route of the wall as fixed by the Israeli Government includes within
the “Closed Area” (i.e. the part of the West Bank lying between the Green Line and the wall) some
80 per cent of the settlers living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and has been traced in such a
way as to include within that area the great majority of the Israeli settlements in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory (including East Jerusalem). The information provided to the Court shows
that, since 1977, Israel has conducted a policy and developed practices involving the establishment
of settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, contrary to the terms of Article 49,
paragraph 6, of the Fourth Geneva Convention which provides: “The Occupying Power shall not
deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” The Security
Council has taken the view that such policy and practices “have no legal validity” and constitute a
“flagrant violation” of the Convention. The Court concludes that the Israeli settlements in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory (including East Jerusalem) have been established in breach of
international law.


http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1677.pdf
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