Ramallah - Ma'an - Saba:
Palestinian citizens in Ramallah governorate in the occupied West Bank are suffering from an ongoing water crisis due to repeated attacks by Israeli enemy settlers on "Ain Samia" wells, the main source of water for dozens of villages and communities in the governorate.
These attacks have led to several temporary pumping stops, directly impacting the water distribution program.
The Palestinian Ma'an News Agency reported on Sunday that Fares al-Maliki, head of the media and public relations department at al-Quds Water Authority, said, "The interruption that occurred over the past few days has deprived approximately 40,000 Palestinian homes of water, equivalent to 160,000 citizens, in a short period of time.
These numbers reflect the magnitude of the crisis we have faced, especially in light of the high temperatures and increased water consumption during the summer."
The Ein Samia wells directly supply 19 Palestinian communities, and the water extracted from them is the sole source of water for these villages located north and east of Ramallah.
According to Al-Maliki, what happened last month was a systematic series of Zionist attacks, including the destruction of surveillance cameras, the disruption of internet and communications lines, the destruction of electrical power, and the sabotage of one of the main water lines at the central station.
He explained that these attacks led the Authority to lose complete control over the operation of the Ein Samia wells, causing the pumping process to stop completely for several days.
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