Settlers continue excavation and restoration works in the vicinity of the water spring of Ein Blaibel, to the east of the village of Ain al-Bayda in the northern Jordan Valley, in preparation for its confiscation.

Aref Daraghmeh, a human rights activist, said that settlers have been carrying out restoration work for two weeks in the vicinity of Ein Bleibel of Khirbet al-Deir, to the east of the village of Ain al-Bayda, noting that this spring is used by citizens to irrigate their crops.

He added that the settlers have used this method in recent years to seize the water springs in the Jordan Valley, where they are working on restoration and construction in their vicinity, and later they are completely seized and citizens are prevented from using them, as happened during the past two years in Ain al-Hilweh and Ain Khallet Khader.

The war of the occupation and the settlers on the water sources in the northern Jordan Valley has been taking an escalating form for years, and the occupation has taken it as a means to try to displace the residents from their lands, by depriving them of their water sources.

The occupation's violations in the field of water in the Jordan Valley are not limited to this, as it escalates the pursuit and seizure of water transport tanks, in addition to destroying agricultural water lines, and reducing the amount of water given to the villages of the Jordan Valley through the Israeli company "Mekorot", which controls the water sources in the Jordan Valley. In addition to trying to seize all the water sources that remained available to citizens.

Although "the northern Jordan Valley is located within the largest eastern water basin in Palestine, Israel controls 85% of its water, while the Palestinians control the remaining 15%. The figures indicate that the rate of consumption by settlers living in the northern Jordan Valley is 8 times what the Palestinian citizen consumes." According to the Abdullah Al-Hourani Center for Studies of the PLO.