Head of the Palestinian water resources management Ahmad Al-Yaqoubi said Israel is stealing more than 80 percent of the Palestinian water and that the separation wall will give Israel the control on water resources.

Al-Yaqoubi said in a report presented at a forum organized by the Arab League here that Israel is also stealing water sources in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.

An individual’s consumption of water in Israel is three to four times more than it is in Palestine where people pay five times the price paid by Israelis, he said.

Israel is controlling 500 million cubic meters of water reserves in the West Bank, which equals to one third of consumption in Israel, Al-Yaqoubi added.
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