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Israel using water access as 'weapon' in Gaza: MSF

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A woman pours water as she and other Palestinians, displaced during the two-year Israeli offensive, shelter at a tent camp in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. File
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Israeli authorities are systematically depriving people in Gaza of the water they need to live, Doctors Without Borders warned on Tuesday (April 28, 2026), decrying a campaign of “collective punishment” against Palestinians.

The extensive destruction of civilian water infrastructure in Gaza coupled with obstruction of access constitutes “an integral part of Israel’s genocide”, said the medical charity, which goes by its French acronym MSF.

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