Palestine News Network reports a water shut off to 17 Palestinian communities in Hebron, West Bank. The report suggests that the shut off was a purposeful act by Israel to force the movement of local Palestinians out of their homes to make room for more Israeli settlements.
A Saudi-led coalition airstrike targets a water project in the al-Hamzat area of Sahar district, Yemen.
Assailants fire a mortar round, striking a water facility in Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. One security guard is killed in the attack, and the facility is damaged. This is one of 32 coordinated incidents across Iraq on the same day. Al-Qa’ida in Iraq claims responsibility for the attacks, stating that they are in retaliation for the torture and genocide that Sunni civilians face in Iraqi prisons.
Israeli warplanes hit water supply wells, pipelines, and wastewater treatment plants servicing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza region. Palestinian officials state that the attacks intentionally targeted the infrastructure, mounting a a war crime under the Geneva Protocol.
In early January 2015 military troops in Iraq block an attack by IS militants that is attempting to destroy a dam and block a road connecting Diyala and the Shiite holy city of Sammara.
Two people are killed and another is injured as a result of a tribal dispute over a watercourse in Bait Al-Hadi Village, Al-Qiblah, Ar Rujum District, Al-Mahwit Governorate, Yemen.
Gunmen blow up the pipes of a drinking water treatment plant running to the U.S. Ayn al-Asad base. Clashes rage between the gunmen and members of the plant’s security, and are followed by explosions that lead to the destruction of the plant’s water pumps and power generators. No group claims responsibility for the attack.
Militants blow up a section of a water pipeline in Baghdad, Iraq. The explosion tears an 18-inch hole in the pipe that carries drinking water to Baghdad’s Adhamiyah, Rusafa, and Karrada districts. No casualties are reported and no group claims responsibility for the attack.
An improvised explosive device attached to a water tanker in the al-Mahawii district of the Babel province explodes, wounding the driver. The blast causes severe damage to the tanker. No one claims responsibility for the attack.
On Thursday, in the town of al-Qaim in Iraq’s Anbar province, a driver and two civilians are wounded and a water tanker truck is damaged when unidentified militants detonate an improvised explosive device targeting a water tanker. No group claims responsibility for the attack.