After two weeks with ** water following Israel's 50-day offensive, Abu Osama took matters into his own hands, and like hundreds of others, sank a well beside his Gaza home. after nearly two months of Israeli bombardment, power cuts and water shortages, he seized upon the ceasefire to get down to work. water shortages are **thing new for Palestinians in the densely populated Gaza Strip enclave, and more and more people have been digging their own wells since 2006. Israel imposed a blockade on the territory that year after Gaza militants snatched one of its soldiers.