US EditionIsraeli settlements close in on West Bank herding community
Israeli settlers have diverted local water sources and increased harassment to displace Palestinian Bedouin families in Ras Ein Al-Auja, affecting 130 families, activists say.
- Israeli settlements have expanded near the Bedouin herding community of Ras Ein Al-Auja in the West Bank, restricting access to resources like water and grazing land.
- Settlers have built structures as close as 100 metres from Bedouin homes, provoking residents and scaring children, with little intervention from Israeli authorities.
- International activists document settler activities and try to deter violence through their presence, taking shifts to stand guard.
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Israeli landgrabbers close in on West Bank herding community
RAS EIN AL-AUJA, Palestinian Territories: In the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley, Naef Jahaleen fears for the future as Israeli settlers come for the land home to one of the area’s last Bedouin herding communities. Life was good before in Ras Ein Al-Auja, the Bedouin herder says, but settlement outposts have grown one after the other over the past two years. Settlers’
In the Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank, Naef Jahalin is afraid of the future as Israeli settlers settle on the lands that house one of the last Bedouin communities of the reg...
In the Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank, Naef Jahalin is afraid of the future as Israeli settlers settle on the lands that house one of the last Bedouin communities of breeders in the region. Life was once beautiful in Ras Ein al-Auja, says this Bedouin breeder, but the outposts have multiplied one after the other over the last two years. Mobile homes have gradually given way to hard-walled houses, some built just a hundred metres from B…
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