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Up to 80,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem left without tap water for three months
Tens of thousands of Palestinian residents in East Jerusalem have spent three months without running water, despite petitions and calls from human rights bodies after an Israeli water utility company stopped supplies in March.
Hagihon, Jerusalem’s water utility company, stopped regular supplies of running water to several neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, such as Shu’fat Refugee Camp, Ras Khamis, Ras Sh’hadeh and Dahiyat a-Salam, said a statement from the website of B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
The camps are located inside Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries and isolated from the rest of the city by the Separation Barrier.
According to B’Tselem, some households in these camps “have been completely cut off from the water supply” while others “receive water intermittently.”
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/06/up-to-80000-palestinians-in-east-jerusalem-left-without-tap-water-for-three-months/
