Due to repeated settler attacks, water pumping from the Ein Samia wells has stopped, and the Jerusalem Water Authority issues a distress call.

In an unprecedented development, the Jerusalem Water Authority announced a complete halt to water pumping from wells and water stations in the Ein Samia area, east of Kafr Malik, due to escalating settler attacks on vital facilities and installations there.

The utility asserts that its crews have lost technical and administrative control over the entire water system at Ein Samia, as a result of a series of attacks directly targeting electricity networks, pumping equipment, communications systems, and surveillance cameras. This has led to a complete shutdown of operations and the disruption of pumping to dozens of Palestinian villages and towns in the northern and eastern Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate.

The agency confirmed that the region continues to experience disruptions to internet services and communications lines, making it difficult to access or restore stations and ensure the necessary protection for field crews.

The Jerusalem Water Authority calls on all official and human rights organizations, both local and international, to intervene immediately and urgently to halt these dangerous attacks, warning that the continuation of the current situation will cause a humanitarian disaster that threatens to deprive more than 70,000 citizens of their basic right to water.

The Authority also called for international protection of Palestinian water resources and the imposition of real pressure to halt the systematic sabotage of its facilities and its main water sources.