aiming to merely collect spring or rain water.168 Palestinians using water from springs that have been illegally declared ‘state property’ by Israel have had their water infrastructure confiscated.169 Other water infrastructure such as cisterns, spring canals and agricultural pools are destroyed by Israeli forces quite often, ostensibly because they had not been issued permits.170 Amnesty International has reported that in the majority of Palestinian villages they visited, cisterns were either destroyed or awaiting pending destruction by the army.171 Prices for tanker water have become increasingly expensive because Israeli checkpoints have prohibited or restricted Palestinian access to main roads, forcing the tankers to take long detours.172 In the Jordan Valley, where many Palestinian herder communities rely heavily on water to survive, the Israeli army has attempted to force them to leave by confiscating their water tankers during the height of summer when they need it most.173 Finally, the route of the Annexation and Separation Wall has been planned in a way that cuts some villages off from their sources of water completely, including agricultural villages that rely on that water for their crops.174 These practices have put severe pressure on Palestinian residents to leave their homes in order to seek areas with sufficient water access and supply.175 As one Palestinian villager reported, “We spend a lot of money on water and never have enough. They are trying to force us out of the area by all means, taking our land is one way and limiting our access to water is another way.”176 “I’m from Safareen [located in Area C], I got married to a man from this village and this is why I live here. I have seven children, five boys and two girls. It was really hard to take care of a family of nine people in this town. You can’t organize your life well at all; you don’t know how you are going to wash their clothes, how you are going to do the dishes, clean your children and give them showers. Everything is connected to water. I remember before the colonies arrived, we had a permit and an agreement to install a water pipe line and they had even started working on it. Then, when the colonies expanded and got closer to us, they stopped working on 168 UNCTAD, Besieged Palestinian Agricultural Sector, 27, supra note 135. 169 Amnesty International, Troubled Waters, 5, supra note 37. 170 Id., 36-37. 171 Id., 44. 172 Id., 37. 173 Id., 40. 174 Id., 49. 175 D’Cunha, “The First Plague,” 302, supra note 145. 176 The villager is from Tuwani, in the Southern Hebron Hills. See, Amnesty International, Troubled Waters, 39, supra note 37. 45