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.
Israel has been blamed for killing 15 Palestinian civilians sheltering in a UN school in a day which saw 120 Palestinians killed and no end for the conflict in sight.
More than 100 Palestinians have been killed as Israel intensified its bombardment of Gaza after a weekend of broken truces.
The UN Security Council has called for an “immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza, but both the Israeli and Palestinian envoys to the UN criticised the statement.
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.