"The Israeli settler consumes approximately seven times the amount of water a Palestinian citizen gets, Isaac said. The Palestinian individual's share does not exceed 80 litres [21 gallons] per day, he explained, noting that in some marginalised communities, that drops to below 15 litres [4 gallons] far below the global minimum recommendation of 100 litres per day. This inequality is visible from the sky."
"But Palestinian families who have relied on it for generations say Israeli settlers are effectively stealing the water, creating a crisis that experts are calling water apartheid. An Israeli settlement outpost now stands between the villagers of al-Auja and their water source. Residents report that settlers have fenced off the area and installed pumps that siphon water directly from the aquifer, leaving Palestinian pipes dry."
Palestinians buy 100 million cubic metres (26 billion gallons) of water annually from Israel while local springs are seized and access blocked to force displacement. The al-Auja spring, historically one of the largest water basins, is now cut off by a settlement outpost; settlers have fenced the area and installed pumps that siphon directly from the aquifer, leaving Palestinian pipes dry. Settlement populations consume roughly seven times the water per person compared with Palestinians; individual Palestinian allocations average no more than 80 litres per day and can fall below 15 litres, well under the 100-litre global recommendation. Drone imagery shows withered Palestinian agriculture adjacent to lush settlement farms. Institutional arrangements stemming from the Oslo Accords maintain military control over water resources and impede meaningful Palestinian access.
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