Water as a tool of oppression: The case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israeli state in the occupied Palestinian territories, does not only physically restricts the living space of millions of Palestinians with its seizure of land and water policy, but also pursues interventionist and destructive policies that will confront the people of the region with thirst. The policy of dominance over water resources, one of the publicly announced political priorities of the Israeli state, remains the cause, catalysator and ultimate goal of the occupation in Palestine, and the main cause of years of suffering for the Palestinians. The aim of this study is to reveal the importance of the struggle over shared water resources in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has been going on for decades, and to embody the use of natural resources as a means of oppression in the inter-state conflicts in the example of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this sense, this study aims to make an academic contribution by emphasizing that there is a purpose of dominating the water resources, contrary to the studies focused on territorial rivalry in the promised land.