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Arad: Supplying water meters to Sussex while helping bleed Palestine dry

…meters in the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel and the Barkan settlement industrial zone. The water system is managed by the Mei Ariel Water Corporation. Arad also develops water meters for the Israeli state owned company Mekorot. Mekorot has a near monopoly on water supply in Israel and also operates and develops water infrastrucure in Area C of the West Bank, where Palestinians are forbidden to develop even basic water infrastructure. A Mek… Continue reading

Occupation Industries: The Israeli industrial zones

…not allowed to use the water located right next to them. Instead, one man tells us, they have to drive a mobile water tank by tractor to Jericho and pay to have it filled up with water from the Israeli national water company, Mekorot. This journey takes between half an hour and an hour. A future for industrial zones? Business areas like the industrial zones are at the forefront of Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine, facilitating ethnic clea… Continue reading

Occupation as Profit: The Settler Economy

…ished there. Israeli checkpoints effectively separate its Palestinian inhabitants from the rest of the West Bank. For agents of the Israeli state, such as the agricultural company Carmel Agrexco and the national water company Mekorot, this creates prime business conditions. Profiting from the occupation. Carmel Agrexco has previously testified in court that it markets and sells 60-70% of all agricultural produce grown in the Occupied Territories…. Continue reading