Israel on Thursday rejected Human Rights Watch's claims that it is committing genocide by denying water to the Gaza Strip.
Human Rights Watch, an organization with a long and vicious anti-Israel history, published a report titled “Israel's Crime of Extermination, Genocide in Gaza: Widespread water deprivation by authorities threatens survival.” .
Gaza is completely dependent on Israel for water and electricity, but this did not deter Hamas, Gaza's governing authority at the time, from carrying out a terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Initially, right after the Israeli terrorist attack cut off All supplies and public works will be sent to Gaza. It was never illegal. International humanitarian law does not require that food and water be provided to enemy states.
However, as it became clear that the conflict was not going to end soon and that a major humanitarian crisis was possible in Gaza, Israel restored services to Gaza and aid trucks containing water were sent to Gaza every day. I tried to enter it.
Hamas stole much of the aid money and also dug up water pipes used to build rockets. Also damaged was a pumping station on the Israeli side of the border needed to pump water to northern Gaza.
as the time of israel reported In June 2024, Israelis and Palestinians on both sides of the border worked together to repair infrastructure and restore water supplies, even during the war, and announced that “direct contact between Israeli and Palestinian elements in Gaza” and cooperation took place early in the war.” Ensure the resumption of water supplies from Israel to Gaza. ”
The Coordination of Government Operations in the Region (COGAT), the Israeli military agency that handles humanitarian assistance in Gaza and other Palestinian areas, noted in X that water supplies to Gaza exceed daily needs.
Israeli government spokesman David Mensah dismissed the Human Rights Watch report as “full of lies” and said the definition of “genocide” had to be changed just to condemn Israel's crimes. compared with a recent Amnesty International report.
Quoting some water statistics provided by COGAT, Mensah noted that a desalination plant in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis is “currently operating at full capacity.”
It's a “race to the bottom among Amnesty International” [International] And Human Rights Watch will be able to further smear Israel,” he said, claiming they are “obsessed” with Israel. “These organizations exist to defame this country.”
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