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As temperatures climbed above 40°C in Al-Auja village in the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley this June, Musa Kaabneh, a Palestinian sheep herder, struggles to provide enough drinking water for his household and flock. Kaabneh is one of 150 Palestinian Bedouin families living in the area, relying on sheep herding for their livelihood, who claim that Israeli settlers are denying them access to the village’s spring, a vital water source the community has depended on since before Israel’s occupation of the West Bank in 1967. “We used to lead normal lives, drinking and watering our sheep from al…

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