Palestinian communities east of the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank have been left without water after violent Israeli settlers targeted a key water facility.
The Sunday assault on Water Well No. 6 in the Ein Samia area, near the village of Kafr Malik, brought pumping operations to a complete halt, depriving dozens of towns of a crucial daily resource.
The water authority in the holy occupied city of al-Quds confirmed that the well, one of the region’s most important groundwater resources, supplies up to 12,000 cubic meters of water daily, roughly 17 percent of the total output of the al-Quds District’s water utility.
The repeated attacks on Ein Samia, including the destruction of surveillance equipment and tampering with critical infrastructure, have raised serious concerns about deliberate efforts to undermine Palestinian water security.
The Israeli regime and its settlers have markedly scaled up their brutal attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank since October 2023, when the regime began a war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.
Since the start of the genocide, the regime's forces have killed 1,086 Palestinians throughout the occupied territory, including 223 children, and wounded more than 10,662 others, while over 20,500 have been detained.
As of the beginning of November, 9,204 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons, including 3,368 without charge.
At least 98 Palestinians have lost their lives in Israeli custody since the start of the Gaza war.
Addressing the issue of the settler violence on Saturday, Gaza’s Hamas resistance movement vehemently denounced the ongoing attacks, describing them as a calculated escalation and a deliberate strategy by the Israeli authorities to intimidate and forcibly displace Palestinian communities.
Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi stated that the daily assaults, theft of property, and unrestrained actions of settler groups across the West Bank, coupled with the Israeli army’s sustained offensives in the territory’s northern areas, exposed the depth of “terrorism” being executed under the explicit political guidance of the regime’s extremist administration.
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