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

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The spring that once sustained life here has run dry, as Bedouin families flee Israeli violence and resource theft 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 alongsi