24 October 09: Amnesty International Report: Troubled Waters

14 August 09: Ha'aretz Magazine Feature: A dry and thirsty land

7 August 09: In Protest of Israeli Water Authority and Mekorot Policies: Demo at Qarawat Beni Zayid

9 July 09: A Wall to Water Access - LifeSource supports communities to host press conference

14 May 09: LifeSource echoes the call from other Palestinian civil society organizations for BDS of Israel

20 April 09: World Bank Report on Assessment of Restrictions on Palestinian Water Sector Development

19 February 09: LifeSource condemns Israel's intimidation tactics in Jayyous
 

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22 May 10

BDS Victory: Huge Italian supermarket chains suspend sales of settlement products [read full story].  Download and distribute LifeSource BDS handout to support your community group in your campaign for BDS of Israel.

18 May 10

Jordan Valley Solidarity and LifeSource connect the village of Al-Farisiya in the northern Jordan Valley with water, freeing up many thousands of dollars in resources that NGOs were planning to spend delivering water to the community via water tanker this summer.

22 March 10

World Water Day

LifeSource film, Besieged Waters, will be screened at the Ramallah Cultural Palace as part of the Palestinian Water Authority's ceremony for World Water Day.

LifeSource releases a new DVD with three short films that LifeSource produced for the EWASH Advocacy Task Force in the occupied Palestinian territory, a sub-committee of the EWASH group. (EWASH represents over 25 organizations working in water, sanitation and hygiene in the occupied Palestinian territory and its members include local and international NGOs and UN Agencies).  Write to info@lifesource.ps to order your copy today.

Watch new LifeSource films online now!

Besieged Waters - 10 mins

Filling Point (part i, part ii) - 15 mins

Gaza is Floating - 9 mins

LifeSource releases a statement this World Water Day, “No More Israeli Colonization of Palestinian Water Resources”.

10 December 09

International Human Rights Day

LifeSource partners in Jabalya Refugee Camp Gaza paint a mural depicting their water situation. 

LifeSource partners in Maghazi Refugee Camp Gaza ‏write a letter to the human rights office in Geneva, conveying their concern over the deterioration of their aquifer and their running water which is, to a large extent, becoming useless. In their message, they call upon the high commissioner and the international community to put pressure on Israel to lift the siege, which followed a great deal of devastation during the latest war on Gaza.

LifeSource partners in Jiftlick Village, Jordan Valley, hold an open day of activities for the children to explore themes of water access, culminating in the release of biodegradable balloons with personal messages from the children, that may just land in one of the nearby illegal Israeli colonies.

22 September 09

LifeSource debuts two short films next week Wed 29 September at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival: By Land or by Water and Gaza is floating.  LifeSource team member Susan Koppelman will speak on a panel following the films.

2 September 09

LifeSource screens preview of new documentary short film Gaza is floating at major press conference in Gaza hosted by UN Humanitarian Coordinator and the Association of International Development Agencies. 

View clip released to all local and major networks for broadcast

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8 August 09

Interview after water convoy on Raising Sand Radio: The Politics of Water and Medical Care in Israel and Palestine

1 August 09

On August 7th join us in bringing water to Qarawat Beni Zayid, Ramallah District, as an act of protest raising awareness of Israeli Water Authority and Mekorot policies.

10 July 09

Mayyada Qutub from LifeSource on ABC Australia Radio talking about the impact of the Wall on access to water.

17 June 09

For two years now, Gaza has been under siege by Israel.

Just before the anniversary of the first humanitarian shipment to enter Gaza after the siege began, LifeSource releases: By Land or by Water: Gaza Under Siege.

Watch 8 min film
Watch 1 min trailer

By Land or by Water press release
Info sheet: Israeli siege on Gaza affects access to water

24 May 09

Photos from youth developing their own media and their own messages about water and the Occupation (LifeSource with Images for Life, Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem). 

27 March 09

LifeSource mourns the death of our colleague and friend Fadia Daibes, who was killed in a car accident on March 26, 2009, as she was returning home from the World Water Forum in Istanbul.  This interview is the last interview that she gave, just the day before she passed away. 

1 Sept 09

LifeSource is excited to announce the release of our first documentary film and our first installment of original LifeSource maps, printed in Palestine.

We, the Women of Jayyous
LifeSource, 2008, 34 mins

Take a tractor ride through the Jayyous countryside behind the Wall, where more than 70% of the village's land and all six of its ground water wells have been confiscated.

See the illegal Israeli dump with industrial waste from the settlements located just above Azzoun's Well, from where the Jayyous residents now get their water.

Learn about the sewage crisis affecting 90% of Palestinians in the West Bank.

And meet the women of Jayyous, who together with LifeSource, are beginning to do something about all of this.

Available on YouTube. 
Or order your copy of We, the Women of Jayyous today.  Suggested donation $20.

Palestinian and Israeli Water Resources and the Segregation Wall
LifeSource, 2008, 60 cm x 90 cm

This map shows Palestinian and Israeli water resources from the Mountain Aquifer together with the Segregation Wall and Palestinian municipal boundaries, which, where they border Israel, demarcate the Green Line (the 1949 Armistice Line).  The purpose of this map is to raise awareness of the Palestinian water resources being confiscated, together with Palestinian land, by Israel.  (Jamal Press, Beitunia, Palestine).

Maps are available from our office in Huwarra (just south of Nablus) or by mail order.  Suggested donation $10 (plus shipping and handling).

LIFESOURCE is a Palestinian-led collective of people who recognize it is crucial to address the current and unfolding regional water crisis immediately – on the humanitarian level, the environmental level, and the political level. We are launching a campaign of popular research, popular education and popular action, with the goal of motivating communities to engage in their own analysis of information and direct their own courses of learning and action.