Responding to an Amnesty International report that claims that Israel unfairly takes more than its share of the country's limited water resources, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Israel had followed international agreements with the Palestinian Authority on water resources faithfully – and in fact Israel has provide the PA with twice as much as had been agreed to in the Oslo Accords.
According to the Oslo Accords, the Foreign Ministry statement said, the PA is supposed to get 23.6 million cubic meters annually. "In actual effect, they have access to twice as much water," the statements says. "Israel has fulfilled all its obligations under the water agreement regarding the supply of additional quantities of water to the Palestinians, and has even extensively surpassed the obligatory quantity. The Palestinians, on the other hand, have significantly violated their commitments under the water agreement, specifically regarding important issues such as illegal drilling (they have drilled over 250 wells without the authorization of the Joint Water Commission) and handling of sewage," it said.