Water line attack leaves 11 communities without water
Eleven communities in the Negev area of Israel are left without water after a main water line is attacked by an unknown group.
Eleven communities in the Negev area of Israel are left without water after a main water line is attacked by an unknown group.
Yemeni tribesmen, thought to be from the Jahm tribe, attack and destroy a pipeline in the Marib province in order to pressure the national government to build water distribution systems and power plants in their region.
Yemen sends 700 soldiers to quell fighting that claims six lives and injured 60 others in clashes that erupt between two villages fighting over a local spring near Taiz. The village of Al-Marzuh believes it is entitled to exclusive use of a spring because it is located on their land; the neighboring village of Quradah believes their right to the water was affirmed in a 50-year-old court verdict. The dispute erupts in violence. President Ali Abdullah Saleh intervenes by summoning…
A water tank is damaged from a petrol bomb thrown by unknown assailants in Istanbul, Turkey.
A bomb thrown at a municipal water tank in Istanbul causes significant damage in the surrounding area.
A man is arrested for attempted poisoning of the water supply for the village of Kurusaray, Turkey.
In a village in Palestine, three Palestinians are injured by gunshots from Israeli settlers. The same settlers also cut the water supply to the village by damaging the pipes.
Israeli settlers from Efrat are blamed for deliberately releasing sewer water into Palestinian agricultural fields in the West Bank.
Water supplies to more than 20 towns are disrupted after a bomb explodes near the town of Baalbek in Lebanon.
Palestinians destroy water supply pipelines to the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar and to Kibbutz Kissufim. The Agbat Jabar refugee camp near Jericho disconnects from its water supply after Palestinians loot and damage local water pumps. Palestinians accuse Israel of destroying a water cistern, blocking water tanker deliveries, and attacking materials for a wastewater treatment project.