In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian taps run dry

By Ali Sawafta and Nuha Sharaf

KFAR MALIK, West Bank/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are facing severe water shortages that they say are being driven by increasing attacks on scarce water sources by extremist Jewish settlers.

Across the West Bank in Palestinian communities, residents are reporting shortages that have left taps in homes dry and farms without irrigation.

In Ramallah, one of the largest Palestinian cities in the West Bank and the administrative…