"The water is back," one family member would announce in a mix of excitement and panic, often very late at night. The moment such an announcement was made, my whole family would run to fill every tank, container or bottle that they could find. Quite often, the water supply would only last for a few minutes, leaving us with a collective sense of defeat and worrying about the likelihood of surviving. That was our life under Israeli military occupation in Gaza. The tactic of holding Palestinians hostage to Israel's water "charity" was widespread during the First Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993) to the extent that denying water supplies to refugee camps, villages, towns or whole regions was the first measure taken by … Continue reading Gaza's next crisis might be worse than anything we have ever seen