

Mekorot, Israel’s national water company is expanding its international cooperation and work on consulting, planning and aid activities to the Latin America and Africa, while applying an apartheid policy in water management in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, practicing the illegal restriction of access to water, depriving the Palestinian from sufficient water supply and maintaining independent infrastructure, violating World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, and operating the illegal Israeli settlements.
Mekorot’ s support has been vital to the establishment of illegal settlements since 1967, when the company gained monopolic control over all water sources in the occupied territories of Palestine, supplying Israeli settlements at the expense of the Palestinian communities. The average Palestinian water consumption per capita is less than the minimum recommended level globally, according to the 100 Litres per day standard of the WHO, the Palestinian average daily allocation is around 84.5 liters of water per day The daily allocation per capita from consumed water in 2022 is less than the internationally recommended rate, and it is decreasing (PCBS, 2024) compared to 200 liters per day for the average Israeli consumption per day, Mekorot profits from occupation and the water shortages by selling stolen water back to Palestinians at 10 times the prices it charges other Israeli water corporations, despite paying higher rates, Mekorot priorities Israeli settlements over the Palestinian communities forcefully dependent on the company’s’ network. Thus Mekorot is complicit in the international crime of natural resource exploitation by operating wells in the West Bank, most of which supply Israeli settlements. Mekorot also works closely with the Israeli military in confiscating irrigation pipes from the West Bank. Adversely affecting Palestinian farmers and the destroying water supply sources for Palestinian communities in a mechanism to drive people away from their land.
Israel has imposed 16 years of blockade on Gaza strip, a side of limiting peoples’ movement and entry of essential goods, products and equipment, it prevented the entry of water equipment utilized for water and sewage systems’ establishment, maintenance and improvements. And since the beginning of the latest Israeli occupation aggression against Gaza in October 2023, Israel has targeted water infrastructure causing the water system to collapse. Preventing Palestinian in Gaza from access to clean drinkable water, and depriving the essential facilities such as hospitals, and schools used as shelters for the displaced people from the proper sanitation. Palestinian in Gaza is suffering from severe water crises, the access to safe and sustainable water in Gaza is limited and nearly impossible.
Water is being used as a weapon against the Palestinian in West Bank and Gaza Strip, as the Israeli government shut off the pipes that supply Gaza with water. In addition, Israel has targeted the critical infrastructure in Gaza, including water supply systems.
Internationally, Mekorot positions itself as a 'leader in water resources management', its enormous desalination plants and the recycling of effluents. And it feeds the myth of the 'Israeli miracle', for having 'transformed a desert into an oasis', omitting the fact that Palestine had a vast established agricultural system, dating back thousands years, which is being systematically destroyed by ongoing colonisation and continuous dispossession of Palestinian territory and the theft of its main sources of water.
Mekorot operate in several countries in Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa, Mediterranean Basin and Europe, it works with governments and various business entities. In Latin America, Mekorot offers consulting services: advice on water management, monitoring, policy planning, project design and training. In general, these services are offered to governments, companies or organizations that need to maintain, expand or deepen extractive projects that demand intensive use of water. Entities of the Zionist lobby of different countries invite government delegations to tour the company's facilities in Israel or to participate in seminars and events that it organizes on water.
Mekorot consider the newest agreements in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Chile, Uruguay as an opportunity to expand the company’s operations in Latin America. following widespread activity in the field in 2022 with the signing of engagements in Morocco, India, and Azerbaijan. Whereas Mekorot is already active in Bahrain and the Kingdom of Jordan. Meanwhile in Africa, Israel worked on enhancing ties with African countries since 1950s to enhance its political alliances, beside that it seeks for resource extraction and market creation for Israeli goods and Mekorot is active under MASHAV-The Israel Agency for International Development Cooperation-and within the framework of some projects that include both technical assistance and aid components.
A brief of agreements Mekorot has signed within the last 15 years in Latin America and Africa is discussed within this report.
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