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Ein al-Auja: How settler attacks and water diversion erased a Palestinian community

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Ein al-Auja: How settler attacks and water diversion erased a Palestinian community Submitted by Majd Jawad on Fri, 06/12/2026 - 18:36 The spring that once sustained life here has run dry, as Bedouin families flee Israeli violence and resource theft " class="video-embed-field-lazy container-element"> Off Haitham Rashaidh was among the last to leave his home near Ein al-Auja, a natural spring and waterfall north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank. His family packed up their tents and heaped all their belongings onto a tractor, and then began the two-hour journey across difficult terrain towards al-Balqa, a sparsely populated area of the Jordan Valley, where they set up camp alongside their displaced neighbours. Leaving Ein al-Auja felt like losing a part of themselves, Rashaidh explained mournfully. Water once flowed here in a torrent, estimated at thousands of cubic metres daily - yet today, the ground is parched, the spring that once supported a Bedouin community of more than 100 fa