PLANS by Israel to dig a “security canal” between the Palestinian territory of Gaza and Egypt will destroy Gaza’s last reserves of water, according to the head of the Palestinian Water Authority, Nabil Sharif. He made the claim at the Stockholm Water Symposium last week during heated exchanges over a series of long-running water disputes between Israelis and Palestinians.
According to the UN, Gaza has the worst water resources of any political territory in the world. What water it has comes from an aquifer beneath Gaza that is severely over-pumped and polluted with salty seawater. “If the [canal] project goes…
