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The Owen Jones Podcast

How Water Became Israel's Most Genocidal Potential Weapon

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Government, News, News & Politics, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Violent deaths caused by Israeli weapons are now thought to be well over 30,000 once you include those buried under the rubble. That's horrific on its own terms - but the deadliest threat doesn't come from bombs and bullets.


I'm joined by UN Special Rapporteur Pedro Arrojo-Agudo to discuss the big threat too few are talking about.

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Hello, now we are well over 100 days into the current horror in Gaza. Now many of us of course are aware of the hideous death toll caused directly from violence. That's of course Israeli missiles, bullets. The truly

0:45.4

grotesque truth is that generally speaking in war, the vast majority of the

0:50.1

final death toll is not made up of those who died directly because of the violence but

0:54.3

because of other factors that being including for example the collapse of the healthcare system

0:59.7

the lack of availability of food and of course fresh water now with that in mind I'm really delighted to be

1:05.1

joined by Pedro Aruka, how do I say that? Pedro Arroco Agudo,

1:11.1

thank you very much. Arroco Agudo, who is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation.

1:21.6

Pedro, it's a big honour to speak to you, how you doing?

1:25.0

Thank you. It's a pleasure to be with you.

1:29.0

I just want to start with the question of water.

1:32.0

Obviously, as people know know one of the basic

1:34.5

building blocks of life and without access to fresh water humans die very

1:41.4

quickly. Now in terms of Gaza before the war began, can you tell me what the

1:47.8

situation was regarding the access of 2.2 million or so Palestinians living in Gaza before the war, obviously the longest

1:56.4

siege in modern history that they've been exposed to, what was the situation in terms of

2:01.9

access to water?

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