Israeli settlers divert Palestinian water to fill West Bank pool
Settlers have seized at least 160 water and sanitation sites this year, the United Nations said, as Palestinians report losses to crops and livelihoods.
- On a searing summer day, Israeli settlers diverted water from a natural spring in the Jordan Valley village of Fasayil, leaving farmer Saad Nemer unable to irrigate his scorched crops.
- Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich pledged 3 million shekel for the development of 'Herod's Pools' in June, following a video post by settler leader Eliav Libi showing the reservoir filling.
- United Nations data shows settlers attacked at least 160 water and sanitation sites this year, while field researcher Fares Foqahaa estimates they have seized control of 95% of springs in the northern Jordan Valley.
- Settler Yishai Shreiber noted that Palestinians now avoid the area due to the presence of large groups of Jews, while Nizam Fares reports residents in Al-Badhan are 'scared and jumpy' regarding settler incursions.
- Palestinian Authority official Adel Yassin describes the seizures as a systematic campaign to force displacement, as archaeologist Alon Arad of Emek Shaveh argues settlers use archaeology to create an 'exclusively Jewish' feeling.
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Israeli Settlers Divert Palestinian Water To Fill West Bank Tourist Pool
The spring served as a lifeline for the nearby village of Fasayil in the fertile Jordan Valley, where Palestinians have relied on it for generations for food, employment and to supplement irregular Israeli supplies to their domestic taps.
An action that directly affects the lives of Palestinians in the region. Near Fasayil, in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, settlers...
On an intense hot summer day, Israeli settlers were refreshing themselves in a pool in the West Bank supplied with water diverted from Palestinian plantations, in one more of the various cases of appropriation of water resources in the occupied territory. Read also: Israel sends soldiers to Palestinian houses in the West Bank surrounded by US Jewish settlers want Netanyahu to condemn the siege of settlers to the Palestinian village in the West B…
Israeli settlers seize Palestinian water source in occupied West Bank to create recreational pool
Israeli settlers have taken control of a freshwater spring that Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank have relied on for generations, diverting its water to create a pool advertised as a tourist attraction and leaving crops to wither. It is estimated that Israeli settlers have now seized control of 95 percent of the northern Jordan Valley's springs, pushing Palestinian communities off their land.
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