Western Asia

A mortar round hits a water facility in Baghdad, Iraq, resulting in a disruption of water supply to residents serviced by the facility. No one claims responsibility for the attack.

Gunmen attack civilians working on a water project in Al-Faris, Iraq, killing 18 and wounding 22. No group claims responsibility for the shooting.

In one of two incidents in Israel on this day (cf. 200512120003), a Qassam rocket lands near a facility belonging to the Israeli national water company, Mekorot, in the western Negev desert. There are no injuries or damages resulting from the strike.

A group of three Iraqi men are shot and killed while transporting water to a military base near Taji, Iraq.

An explosive device targeting a water main in Kirkuk, Iraq, detonates prematurely, killing two and injuring one of the attackers.

The drivers of a water truck are killed in Baghdad, Iraq by a gunman while driving for work.

The director of the Baqubah water project, Husayn Ali Atiyah, is killed by gunmen. The attack is considered part of a larger effort to undermine the Iraqi reconstruction process.

A government official working with the water authority in Kirkuk, Iraq is killed.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) claims responsibility for a rocket attack, which is aimed at Ashkelon, Israel, but lands in an industrial area just south of Ashkelon, damaging a Mekorot water station, causing no injuries.