[Jerusalem Post] Ehud Zion Waldoks - The Israel Water Authority slammed Amnesty International on Monday over the publication of a new critical report on water allocation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The Water Authority stressed that it routinely provided the PA with more water per year than the amounts stipulated in the Oslo Accords. It also said Palestinians routinely dug illegal wells and refused to purify and reuse their sewage for agriculture. Instead, they dumped their sewage into the streams in the West Bank, causing massive pollution. NGO Monitor president Prof. Gerald Steinberg said: "Rather than recognize that water supply is a complex regional issue, Amnesty focuses only on Palestinian shortages....The report adopts a painfully simplistic narrative which places blame solely on Israel, to the extent that the Palestinian leadership is absolved of responsibility for the agreements signed under the Oslo framework."
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