How Israel Worked to Renew Gaza's Water Supply Amid the War

It now emerges that direct contacts and cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian elements in Gaza took place early in the war to ensure the renewal of water supply from Israel to Gaza.

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This cooperation between Israeli and Gaza professionals under fire demonstrates the disparity between the inflammatory statements of government ministers and the complex reality on the ground.

This incongruity is one of the reasons the Israeli authorities involved in the effort – the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Water Authority and Mekorot, Israel’s water company – prefer not to comment on the issue.

Ed Morrissey

Unfortunately, that leaves Israel open to allegations of "war crimes" by not pointing out that they are providing water to the territory whose inhabitants have been trying to annihilate them for the past 19 years. It's extraordinary that the Israelis would supply water to the entity that invaded them and massacred 1200 people, most of them civilians, especially while they hold a large number of kidnapped hostages. I haven't seen that happen to a belligerent without some form of capitulation first in other wars. 

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