Illegal Israeli settlers minimize off water strains to a Palestinian Bedouin neighborhood in Jericho on Saturday, an official stated.
Hassan Mleihat, coordinator of the Al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, informed the Wafa news company {that a} group of Israeli settlers “cut water pipelines on Saturday evening that supply drinking water to Palestinian homes in the village of Al-Auja, north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank,” citing native sources.
In an announcement, Mleihat stated the settlers “drove provocatively through the area in their vehicles before deliberately cutting the pipes that transport water from the Al-Auja spring to residents’ homes.”
He stated the assault is a part of a broader, systematic marketing campaign geared toward forcibly displacing Palestinian residents from their land, describing it as a “deliberate escalation in efforts to empty the region of its Indigenous population.”
Separately, settlers attacked the city of Cooper, northwest of Ramallah within the central West Bank, injuring two Palestinians, Wafa reported.
In the southern West Bank, 4 relations had been attacked by settlers whereas farming their land within the city of Sa’ir, north of Hebron.
According to information from the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, a governmental physique, settlers carried out 860 assaults in opposition to Palestinians and their property within the West Bank in the course of the first three months of 2025, together with raids on Palestinian cities and communities, assaults on properties, land bulldozing, and different violations.
Tensions have been excessive within the occupied West Bank, the place at the least 957 Palestinians have been killed and greater than 7,000 injured for the reason that begin of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, in response to Palestinian figures.
Last July, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land unlawful and demanded the evacuation of all settlements within the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Source: www.dailysabah.com