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The murder of the ‘menacing’ water technician: on the shadow wars in the West Bank
There is an ongoing, but hidden, Israeli war on the Palestinians which is rarely highlighted or even known: it is a water war, which has been in the making for decades, writes RAMZY BAROUD
The funeral of Imad Dwekat, 37, killed by Israeli security forces, in the village of Beita south of Nablus last Friday

ON JULY 26 and 27, two separate but intrinsically linked events took place in the Ein al-Hilweh area in the occupied Jordan Valley and near the town of Beita, south of Nablus.

In the first incident, Jewish settlers from the illegal settlement of Maskiyot began construction in the Ein al-Hilweh Spring, which has been a source of fresh water for villages and hundreds of Palestinian families in that area. The seizure of the spring has been developing for months, all under the watchful eye of the Israeli occupation army.

Now, the Ein al-Hilweh Spring, like most of the Jordan Valley’s land and water resources, has been annexed by Israel.

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