JORDAN VALLEY, April 28, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists placed concrete blocks on Monday around several water springs in the Khirbet al-Deir area of the northern Jordan Valley.

Omar Fuqaha, head of Ein al-Beida village council, reported that the colonists had installed the concrete blocks around certain springs, marking another effort to assert control over these water resources and restrict Palestinian access.

Colonists have been targeting the springs scattered across the border area, which Palestinians have traditionally used to irrigate their rain-fed crops every year.

According to the Israeli information center for human rights in occupied territories, B’Tselem, Israel has instituted in this area a regime that intensively exploits its resources, to an extent greater than elsewhere in the West Bank, and which demonstrates its intention: de facto annexation of the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea area to the State of Israel.

T.R.