CRC/C/ISR/CO/2-4 Adolescent health 55. The Committee is concerned about the high rate of suicide and attempts at suicide among adolescents in the State party, especially among girls. 56. Referring to its general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health, the Committee recommends that the State party undertake an in-depth study of youth suicide and its causes, including a gender perspective, and use this information to develop and implement a national plan of action on youth suicide, in cooperation with child guidance centres, social workers, teachers, health workers and other relevant professionals. The State party should also consider increasing the availability of psychological counselling services and provide adolescents with the support of trained social workers in schools. Standard of living 57. The Committee is concerned that poverty among children has risen over the years, and that one out of three is living under the poverty line or on the edge of it. The Committee is also concerned about the privatization of social services and the limited access to free services, which increase the difficulties that children and their families in need are facing. 58. The Committee urges the State party to ensure that children and their families living in poverty receive adequate financial support and free, accessible services without discrimination. 59. In light of its previous concluding observations (CRC/C/15/Add.195, paras. 50 and 51), the Committee remains deeply concerned about the increasing poverty among Palestinian children and the serious violations of their right to an adequate standard of living resulting from the occupation of the Palestinian territories by the State party and about the measures taken to accelerate expansion of Israeli settlements, the construction of the Wall to separate communities and the Gaza blockade. The Committee is particularly concerned about: (a) Land confiscation, large-scale demolition of Palestinian houses, expulsion of Palestinian and Bedouin families from the homes they have occupied for generations, discriminatory building regulations, especially in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which continue to result in hundreds of Palestinian families and their children being displaced, homeless or in constant fear of eviction and demolition; (b) The critical water shortage faced by Palestinian children and their families and by Bedouin children in the Negev due to prohibitions of access to natural resources, restrictions on water utilization and destruction of water services including traditional cistern-based water infrastructure essential for maintaining the Bedouin people’s nomadic and agricultural way of life. The Committee is further concerned about the State party authorities’ opposition to the creation of waste water treatment facilities in East Jerusalem and to providing access to safe drinking water to Bedouin families and their children living in so-called “unrecognized villages” even in cases where the Supreme Court has ruled that villages should be connected, as in Civil Appeal 9535/06, Abdullah Abu Musa’ed, et al. v. The Water Commissioner and the Israel Land Administration (decision delivered 5 June 2011); (c) Children in the OPT increasingly suffering from chronic malnutrition, a situation which has been gravely exacerbated by the closure of the Gaza Strip and the constraints placed on agencies providing humanitarian aid in Gaza, by the maintenance of severe restrictions on access to agricultural land and the sea and by the destruction and confiscation of means needed for Palestinian livelihood, including the thousands of Palestinian-owned trees, mainly olive trees damaged or uprooted by Israeli settlers and the State authorities. 14