Israeli settlers, operating under the protection of Israeli military forces, have repeatedly attacked the Sebastia-Masoudiya well (the primary water source for Nablus and surrounding villages in the northern occupied West Bank), burning a guard's caravan with Molotov cocktails, severing plastic water pipes, and destroying irrigation networks tied to a €13 million agricultural project serving 250 farmers. Settlers also seized the Ein al-Dalba spring in the nearby town of Burqa, demolished its main water storage tank, and began diverting water toward the illegal outpost of Homesh. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported in June 2026 that settler violence has damaged or destroyed more than 190 water and sanitation facilities across the West Bank since the start of the year, displacing over 2,200 Palestinians — a trend Nablus Mayor Inan al-Atira described as a systematic campaign aimed at destabilising the city's entire water sector rather than isolated incidents.