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No water, long way to food
They definitely have access to water inside the town.
If there wasn't, building it there would be pointless, attackers could just wait a week instead of assaulting it.
You can see on the map they've got public taps: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/37.620996/14.742858
One of the archaeological sites is labelled "Roman Cistern" too and you can see a lot of streams.
Not that I don't you, as it makes sense, but I can't see any cisterns on satellite view. It does say the town was completely razed in 1233, so it might have existed. My next question would be how they collected the water on top of a hill