Settlers use water to ethnically cleanse the occupied West Bank
Israeli settlers were filmed deliberately emptying vital water tanks in the Palestinian herding community of Ein al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley. Ein al-Hilweh freshwater spring had been used by the farmers and Bedouin shepherds of the village for generations. But in 2019, illegal ‘Israeli’ colonists from the nearby Maskiyot settlement, with the help of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), seized the spring and fenced it off. Now, Palestinians no longer have access to it and the IOF has threatened them with forcible displacement if they try. The community now relies on tankers for their water supply, which is why these…

