Marketed as a tourist site for Israelis only, the pool has the explicit backing of the Israeli government.

Israeli settlers seized the water supply from a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank earlier this summer, preventing Palestinian farmers from growing crops in order to fill a swimming pool. Palestinians in Fasayil, in the Jordan Valley, a particularly fertile section of the West Bank, have had their water cut off for months now. In May, settlers began arriving at a nearby illegal…

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