Israel/Palestine: Palestinian Water Woes Highlight Dashed Hopes of Oslo Accords

Sep 10, 2023 | Agence France-Presse
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The Israeli-Palestinian dispute centres on land but also on the water resources that sustain life in the sun-parched land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan river. Hopes for peace were high when then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat shook hands with Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993, watched by US president Bill Clinton.