RAMALLAH, West Bank — For no apparent reason, the Israeli army seized a water network July 3 in the northern Jordan Valley. The network used to irrigate 30 acres of land planted with grapes in the village of al-Jiftlik. The land is owned by Palestinian farmer Nail Bani Odeh, and the attack is an example of the daily Israeli incursions that affect residents of the northern Jordan Valley, their agricultural land, their places of residence and their livestock.

Such attacks are carried out by both the Israeli army and the settlers. Fawzi Daraghmeh, a 47-year-old resident of Khirbet Samra in the Jordan Valley, cannot take action against a settler whose livestock has been grazing his land for weeks.

“The army and settlers attack us on an almost daily basis," he told Al-Monitor. "A settler brought dozens of cows onto the 50 acres of land that I own after I harvested wheat, completely destroying the crop. The settler is making his cows graze my land in an attempt to stop me from entering my land, which they eventually want to take over.”

He continued, “I provide for my family by breeding sheep and working in agriculture, but the settlers and the army would do anything and everything to push us out of our land. They have even taken up our work on our own land.”