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	~~Jewish~~ forces used well poisoning during the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of 1948, in order to ensure that Arabs could not return to villages they had been expelled from.<ref>[http://vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres10/BOLTONantisem.pdf Dr K R Bolton (2006) ANTI-SEMITISM: CUI BONO?"] Renaissance Press, p.15: "''In the 1948 war, ~~Jewish~~ forces would empty Arab villages of their populations, often by threats, sometimes by just gunning down a half-dozen unarmed Arabs as examples to the rest. To make sure the Arabs couldn't return to make a fresh life for themselves in these villages, the Israelis put typhus and dysentery bacteria into the water wells.''".</ref>		jewish forces used well poisoning during the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of 1948, in order to ensure that Arabs could not return to villages they had been expelled from.<ref>[http://vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres10/BOLTONantisem.pdf Dr K R Bolton (2006) ANTI-SEMITISM: CUI BONO?"] Renaissance Press, p.15: "''In the 1948 war, jewish forces would empty Arab villages of their populations, often by threats, sometimes by just gunning down a half-dozen unarmed Arabs as examples to the rest. To make sure the Arabs couldn't return to make a fresh life for themselves in these villages, the Israelis put typhus and dysentery bacteria into the water wells.''".</ref>

	Naeim Giladi, an Iraqi ~~Jew~~ who had initially embraced Zionism, wrote:		Naeim Giladi, an Iraqi jew who had initially embraced Zionism, wrote:

	<blockquote>Uri Mileshtin, an official historian for the Israeli Defense Force, has written and spoken about the use of bacteriological agents. According to Mileshtin, Gen. Moshe Dayan, former Israeli Defense Minister, gave orders in 1948 to remove Arabs from their villages, bulldoze their homes, and render water wells unusable with typhus and dysentery bacteria. [End note: "Mileshtin was quoted by the Israeli daily, Hadashot, in an article published August 13, 1993. The writer, Sarah Laybobis-Dar, interviewed a number of Israelis who had knowledge of the use of bacteriological weapons in the 1948 war. Mileshtin said bacteria was used to poison the wells of every village emptied of its Arab inhabitants."]<ref>[http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/ameu_iraqjews.html cited in "The ~~Jews~~ of Iraq"] by Naeim Giladi on the release of his book "Ben Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah & the Mossad Eliminated ~~Jews~~". Published in "The Link", forward by John F. Mahoney of "Americans for Middle East Understanding" (AMEU) who interviewed Giladi for three hours on March 16, 1998.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Uri Mileshtin, an official historian for the Israeli Defense Force, has written and spoken about the use of bacteriological agents. According to Mileshtin, Gen. Moshe Dayan, former Israeli Defense Minister, gave orders in 1948 to remove Arabs from their villages, bulldoze their homes, and render water wells unusable with typhus and dysentery bacteria. [End note: "Mileshtin was quoted by the Israeli daily, Hadashot, in an article published August 13, 1993. The writer, Sarah Laybobis-Dar, interviewed a number of Israelis who had knowledge of the use of bacteriological weapons in the 1948 war. Mileshtin said bacteria was used to poison the wells of every village emptied of its Arab inhabitants."]<ref>[http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/ameu_iraqjews.html cited in "The jews of Iraq"] by Naeim Giladi on the release of his book "Ben Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah & the Mossad Eliminated jews". Published in "The Link", forward by John F. Mahoney of "Americans for Middle East Understanding" (AMEU) who interviewed Giladi for three hours on March 16, 1998.</ref></blockquote>

	<blockquote>I heard a corroborating account myself from a technician with Mekorot, the Israeli Water Authority, who was testing a well near a construction site where I was working. I asked him what he was doing. Assuming I had fought in 1948 [ed - Giladi was only a bit too young] he said, "Don't you remember? We used bacteria in many places. Every village we occupied we put bacteria in the wells. Now we keep testing them to keep track of when it is safe to use them again."<ref>[http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/ameu_iraqjews.html Ibid] "Don't you remember? We used bacteria in many places ... we keep testing them to keep track of when it is safe to use them again."</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>I heard a corroborating account myself from a technician with Mekorot, the Israeli Water Authority, who was testing a well near a construction site where I was working. I asked him what he was doing. Assuming I had fought in 1948 [ed - Giladi was only a bit too young] he said, "Don't you remember? We used bacteria in many places. Every village we occupied we put bacteria in the wells. Now we keep testing them to keep track of when it is safe to use them again."<ref>[http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/ameu_iraqjews.html Ibid] "Don't you remember? We used bacteria in many places ... we keep testing them to keep track of when it is safe to use them again."</ref></blockquote>

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'''Well-poisoning''' is the criminal act of malicious manipulation of drinking water in order to cause illness or death, or to deny an opponent access to fresh water resources.

== In warfare ==

Well poisoning has been historically documented as strategy during wartime since [[Antiquity]], and was used both offensively (as a terror tactic to disrupt and depopulate a target area) and defensively (as a [[scorched earth]] tactic to deny an invading army sources of clean water). Rotting corpses (both animal and human) thrown down wells were the most common implementation; in one of the earliest examples of [[biological warfare]], corpses known to have died from common [[transmissible disease]]s such as [[bubonic plague]] or [[tuberculosis]] were especially favored for well-poisoning.

In 1462, for example, Prince [[Vlad III the Impaler]] of [[Wallachia]] utilized this method to delay his pursuing [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] Turk adversaries. Whilst retreating through Turkish-controlled [[Bulgaria]], across the [[Danube]] River and back to the capital of Wallachia that same year, Vlad's army employed the poisoning of wells and other sources of water, as well as other scorched earth tactics en route to his country on both sides of the Danube, meaning that he deliberately polluted the water supplies of his fellow Romanians even at the cost of their lives if it slowed down his Muslim foes.

Nearly 500 years later during the [[Winter War]], the Finns rendered wells unusable by planting animal carcasses or feces in them in order passively combat invading Soviet forces.<ref>''The Winter War, the Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40'', William R. Trotter, Aurum Press Ltd, London 2003, ISBN 1-85410-932-4</ref>

During the 20th century, the practice of poisoning wells has lost most of its potency and practicality against an organized force as modern [[military logistics]] ensure secure and decontaminated supplies and resources. Nevertheless German forces during First World War poisoned wells in France as part of [[Alberich (World War I German operation)|Operation Alberich]].<ref>CThe Making of Peace: Rulers, States, and the Aftermath of War edited by Williamson Murray, Jim Lacey Cambridge University Press page 218</ref>

A few religions have laws condemning such scorched earth tactics. Most notably [[Islam]], in its scripture, dictates that water-bodies may not be poisoned even during a battle and enemies must be allowed access to water.{{Citation needed}}

== Medieval accusations ==
See [[Black Death]].

== Post-WWII plan by Jews to poison Germans ==

See [[Nakam]].

== Serbs ==

Accusations of well-poisoning have also been brought up against [[Serbs]]. Most notoriously, Serbs were accused of poisoning [[Kosovo Albanians]].<ref>[http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/050228IT.htm], [http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/050223ED.htm] - UN.org, dead links, allegations against Serbs for poisoning Kosovars.</ref> There are also accusations of well-poisoning as a part of the [[Srebrenica massacre]].<ref>David Rohde: [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/nelson/rohde/p-10242.html "Bosnian Serbs Poisoned Streams To Capture Refugees, Muslims Say"] Colombia.edu, October 24, 1995.</ref>

== Israel ==

Jewish forces used well poisoning during the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of 1948, in order to ensure that Arabs could not return to villages they had been expelled from.<ref>[http://vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres10/BOLTONantisem.pdf Dr K R Bolton (2006) ANTI-SEMITISM: CUI BONO?"] Renaissance Press, p.15: "''In the 1948 war, Jewish forces would empty Arab villages of their populations, often by threats, sometimes by just gunning down a half-dozen unarmed Arabs as examples to the rest. To make sure the Arabs couldn't return to make a fresh life for themselves in these villages, the Israelis put typhus and dysentery bacteria into the water wells.''".</ref>

Naeim Giladi, an Iraqi Jew who had initially embraced Zionism, wrote:

<blockquote>Uri Mileshtin, an official historian for the Israeli Defense Force, has written and spoken about the use of bacteriological agents. According to Mileshtin, Gen. Moshe Dayan, former Israeli Defense Minister, gave orders in 1948 to remove Arabs from their villages, bulldoze their homes, and render water wells unusable with typhus and dysentery bacteria. [End note: "Mileshtin was quoted by the Israeli daily, Hadashot, in an article published August 13, 1993. The writer, Sarah Laybobis-Dar, interviewed a number of Israelis who had knowledge of the use of bacteriological weapons in the 1948 war. Mileshtin said bacteria was used to poison the wells of every village emptied of its Arab inhabitants."]<ref>[http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/ameu_iraqjews.html cited in "The Jews of Iraq"] by Naeim Giladi on the release of his book "Ben Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah & the Mossad Eliminated Jews". Published in "The Link", forward by John F. Mahoney of "Americans for Middle East Understanding" (AMEU) who interviewed Giladi for three hours on March 16, 1998.</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>I heard a corroborating account myself from a technician with Mekorot, the Israeli Water Authority, who was testing a well near a construction site where I was working. I asked him what he was doing. Assuming I had fought in 1948 [ed - Giladi was only a bit too young] he said, "Don't you remember? We used bacteria in many places. Every village we occupied we put bacteria in the wells. Now we keep testing them to keep track of when it is safe to use them again."<ref>[http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/ameu_iraqjews.html Ibid] "Don't you remember? We used bacteria in many places ... we keep testing them to keep track of when it is safe to use them again."</ref></blockquote>

In recent years, Israeli settler in the [[West Bank]] have been accused of well contamination. Cases include that of rotting chicken carcases found in a well at At-tuwani near [[Hebron]] in 2004, although suspected settlers blamed Arab infighting.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3891531.stm "Settlers suspected of well attack"] BBC News, 13 July 2004.</ref> In the following years, various NGOs reported similar occurrences, accusing settlers of deliberately contaminating cisterns.<ref>[http://www.cpt.org/cptnet/2008/01/19/tuwani-cistern-contaminated-humra-valley AT-TUWANI: Cistern contaminated in Humra Valley], CPTnet, 19 January 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/science/water_feature/water_wars.html Water Wars], Channel 4, retrieved on 18 August 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/mar/01/guardiansocietysupplement4 Running on empty], by Fred Pearce, The Guardian, 1 March 2006</ref>

In April 2013, Israeli settlers were accused of poisoning the water well of villagers south of Hebron. The villagers also complained of other forms of mistreatement.<ref>[http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/28/300615/israeli-settlers-poison-palestinians-water-well/ "Israeli settlers poison Palestinians water well"] Press TV, Apr 28, 2013.</ref>

Israel have targeted and destroyed water and sewer systems in [[Gaza]].<ref>[http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-jets-destroying-gaza-water-and-sewerage-systems-284613778 "Israeli jets destroying Gaza water and sewerage systems: officials"] Health crisis looming as Israeli attacks accused of targeting already fragile water and sewage infrastructure, Middle East Eye, 13 July 2014.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Nakam]]

== External links ==
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3891531.stm Settlers suspected of well attack]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4482211.stm Amnesty: West Bank farms poisoned] ([[BBC]])

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