Shlomo Dror, spokesperson for the Coordinator of Activities in the Territories, told IMRA today that Israel is still supplying to Gaza the water that it previous supplied to the Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip.

Dror noted that a week before the evacuation, Israeli officials toured the Israeli water processing facilities with Palestinian officials as well as international representatives in order to insure the proper transfer of the facilities. The Palestinians were presented with detailed documentation so that they could operate the facilities that Israel used to process sewage water so that it could be used in agriculture. 80% of the water used by Israeli agriculture in the Gaza Strip was processed sewage water. “The only thing we took with us were the tanks of chlorine out of concern that someone might take them and release the chlorine into the air. We told the Palestinians that we are holding the chlorine tanks in storage and would be happy to give the tanks to them at no charge but to this day the tanks remain in storage,: Dror explained.

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