sabotaging them after their implementation in many areas of the West Bank, in addition to the confiscation of equipment. - The daily violations in the areas of water and electricity have resulted in frequent and daily power cuts due to the transfer of capacities in favor of the Israeli settlements and the reduction of the capacity of the supply connection points that feed Palestinian cities and villages. As for water, the share of the Palestinian citizen throughout the year did not exceed (20%) compared to that of the Israeli settler in the West Bank settlements. Endeavor continued to dismantle the forced connection between Palestinian and Israeli networks that affect the ability of Palestinians to control the quantity and quality of services such as energy and water, all of this was linked to the ability of Palestinians to control their own natural resources, especially in the “C” areas.16 4- Environment sector: The Israeli occupation has impeded the implementation of the Environment Quality Authority and other competent authorities of the national policies to protect the Palestinian environment, this violation included: - Creating obstacles and preventing the implementation of operations related to the provision of public and environmental services: Rejection, procrastination and the complications, which the Israeli occupation placed in the way of issuing approvals and licenses for the construction of environmental infrastructure.17 - Violations against natural reserves and biological diversity, in addition to the occupation authorities' prevention of Palestinian institutions from carrying out their tasks in managing these reserves and protecting Palestinian biodiversity, as well as exposing them to sabotage and bulldozing them, in addition to sanctioning some areas as natural reserves to control them. - The continued drainage of wastewater from settlements into Palestinian valleys, agricultural land and natural areas posed as the most important challenges and the most serious violations against the Palestinian environment. - The continued flow of Israeli waste from settlements and waste smuggled from the 1948occupied areas, of all hazardous kinds, household, construction, solid and liquid materials, to the 1967-occupied Palestinian territories, without the occupation authorities taking any measures to prevent their transfer. The Status Report of the "C" Areas, and the Impact of Israeli Violations Therein on the Capacity of the State of . 16 Palestine, Independent Commission for Human Rights, 2016. Correspondence received to the ICHR from the Environmental Quality Authority on Marc h 5, 2020. .17