| Getting permission to enter the military zone near Salem village in Nablus to restore the town's water supply has become a habit for Abu Al Nour. As a representative of the village's town council, Abu Al Nour is responsible for ensuring a continuous water supply to Salem's residents.
"The main switch of the village's water line is in a military area. Every other day settlers would cut the water supply, leaving us suffering, especially in summer," he told Gulf News by phone. "Hence it became routine for me to obtain authorisation several times a week to get to the main switch and restore the water to the village."
This situation forced Abu Al Nour to contact the Red Cross, which he said "didn't do anything official to solve the problem."
"The cat and mouse" game between the Israeli settlers and the Palestinians over water resources, as Abu Al Nour likes to put it, became a regular feature for Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. And with the separation wall working its way to divide the Palestinian land, 85 per cent of the water resources will end up in Israel including artesian wells that are important for agriculture in the West Bank...
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