Jewish settlers occupy a water spring in Nablus

A group of extremist Jewish settlers occupied on Thursday a water spring near the village of Deir al-Hatab to east of  the northern West Bank city of Nablus and setup a number of caravans around it in an attempt to create a new settlement, according to local sources.

The sources added that a group of settlers from the Alon Moreh settlement which is built on land belonging to the villagers (of Deir al-Hatab) and brought with them caravans and a water tank and settled a round the spring.

The settlers had previously surveyed the area well and prepared the ground for the caravans.