The sanctions imposed on the Gaza administration by both Israel and Western countries and Israel’s closure of Gaza’s border crossings has left more than 250,000 people without adequate water supply and the restrictions on fuel may leave 1.5 million people without water and sewage services in the coming days, warns a newly released report by the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE). The report was released to coincide with a Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council on human rights violations taking place in the occupied Palestinian territory including recent actions in Gaza and Nablus.

Full position paper, PDF file

Web site: COHRE - Right to Water Programme

Contact: Claude Cahn, COHRE, Switzerland, tel..: +41-227341028/762034688, claudecahn@cohre.org

Source: COHRE, 23 Jan 2008

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