Water has become a means of control, determining the future ownership of a plot of land, the success or failure of a business, or the means to render a community unlivable.
More than 100 Palestinians have been killed as Israel intensified its bombardment of Gaza after a weekend of broken truces.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an immediate end to the violence in Gaza that has left more than 1,000 people dead and the area in a “critical condition”.
Israeli security forces killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as they protested against the ongoing Israeli ground offensive in Gaza which has claimed the lives of over 800 people.
After a seven hour emergency session, the UNHRC voted overwhelmingly to establish independent Commission of Inquiry into Israel’s ongoing ground offensive in Gaza and accusations of war crimes.