Settlers use water to ethnically cleanse the occupied West Bank

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  • Post last modified:12 August 2026

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…

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Israel’s far-right defence minister openly pledges to ethnically cleanse Gaza

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The settler-colonial state’s far-right defence minister, Israel Katz, has openly stated Israel’s intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Genocidal intentions have being central to Israeli state ideology. Lawyers and human rights groups attacked Katz. The Guardian reported on 29 May: Katz said the mass departure of Palestinians from Gaza would go hand in hand with the exclusion of Hamas from power. Katz himself said: We committed that Hamas will not rule Gaza civilly or militarily, and so it shall be, and also the voluntary emigration plan from Gaza will be implemented. Everything at the right timing and in the right manner. Yet…

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