WEST BANK: Palestinians in the village of Susiya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank thought life could not get worse as Jewish settlers were attacking them repeatedly and ripping apart their precious olive groves.
Then settlers armed with knives set upon their water sources, villagers said.
“They want us to live without water, and here they also cut the electrical wires,” said Mousa Mughnem, 67, who lives with his 60-year-old wife Najah in the village near the town of Hebron.
Palestinians in the West Bank have reported growing Israeli settler violence since war erupted between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza on October 7, 2023.
Palestinian authorities who exercise limited self-rule in parts of the West Bank say the settlers are trying to force Palestinians off their lands in order to seize them.
