Ramallah- Little by little, the settlers narrow the screws on dozens of Palestinian families from the Arabs of Jahalin in the Ain Ayoub Al -Badawi gathering, west of Ramallah, forcing them to pack their luggage and determination to leave.
Residents of the Palestinian gatherings scattered in the region “C” often depend on agriculture and livestock, where pastures and agricultural lands, but their livestock and lands have become a target for the settlers by spreading what is known as “pastoral foci”, where the settler lives the lives of Palestinian farmers in their details.
In recent months, the phenomenon of stealing the Palestinian livestock in the Bedouin and rural gatherings has expanded in order to pressure them to force them to leave and settle their place.
Great calamity
“We are in a major calamity, since a month, we are suffering without anyone caught us, since Saturday, the situation has increased separately,” thus summarizes the Palestinian Abdullah Al -Jahlin if the residents of the gathering bordering the village of Deir Ammar as a result of the settlers’ attacks, which increased after a settler began next to them, began to derive his toxins about 10 days ago.
“We are no longer able to endure, 50 meters away, a settler with its cows and donkeys with military protection, watching us around the clock, threatening us, and sets a period after another to leave, we have become prisoners in the homes, and we no longer believe in our children, our children and our sheep,” Al -Jahalin added in his interview with Al -Jazeera Net.
According to the Jahlin, the settler appointed the sheep of the gathering, and in several incursions he asked about them and tried to steal them, but the crowds of their owners failed theft.
And with their sensitivity to the increasing danger based on the experience of ten other gatherings, the residents were forced to deport their sheep to a safe place in the nearby village of Deir Ammar, and they attached their requirements from pens and fodder, but they kept their homes until the time of separation that may seem close after an attack that resulted in the burning of one of them on the evening of Saturday, and the return of the army on Sunday evening to announce the gathering a closed military area and then return again in an hour Late the same evening, to warn the residents again.
The Palestinian citizen explains that the residents of the village – about 130, including 80 children – in a state of caution and anticipation in anticipation of a new attack by settlers.
Settlers steal the sheep of the people by protecting the occupation soldiers near Jericho pic.twitter.com/481eYGiX6h
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Theft of livestock
The theft of Palestinian sheep and cows by settlers are not individual or anomalous cases, but rather a common, organized and protected phenomenon from the army that are similar in all gatherings, as well as video clips published by foreign citizens and activists, and are confirmed by the reports of human rights organizations.
The documentation of the “Al -Bidar for the Defense of the Rights of the Bedouins and the targeted villages” indicates the exacerbation of the phenomenon in the first half of this year, and in separate areas of the classified area “C” under Israeli control, which amounts to about 60% of the West Bank area.
The organization reveals widespread theft of livestock in the Bedouin communities in the northern Jordan Valley, in addition to the recording of killing and cattle poisoning.
The General Supervisor of the organization, Hassan Malhat, explained – in his interview with Al -Jazeera Net – that approximately 7,000 heads of livestock were stolen by settlers from the Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley during the past six months, including about 5 thousand heads of sheep and a thousand heads of cows.
Mlehat added that the theft operations were mainly focused in the northern and central Jordan Valley, especially in villages near settlements and areas with weak security control during the period from January to last June.
Bedouin societies
On the economic and social impact of these thefts, the organization’s supervisor indicates direct losses of millions of dollars in view of the value of stolen livestock, as well as the deterioration of the level of food security, as Bedouin families depend on livestock as a main source of meat, milk and dairy products.
He referred to the accompanying thefts from destabilizing the social and economic, while causing a state of fear and anxiety between educators, and pushing them to migrate in search of security and protecting the sources of livelihood.
Mlehat reveals many goals for stealing livestock settlers, including the settlers’ pursuit of money by selling livestock in the markets or smuggling them abroad, in addition to the political goal by exercising pressure to create a state of weakening and marginalization of the Bedouin population.
Malihat considered the theft of 7,000 heads of cattle during a short period of time “a major blow to the Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley that threatens their continuity and impedes their ability to withstand in the face of difficult circumstances.”
Amid the protection of the occupation soldiers and the screaming of the Palestinian family … Israeli settlers seize the sheep of the Palestinian king in the village of Tawani, in the traveler of Yatta, south of the occupied West Bank.#interaction To reach you all new pic.twitter.com/Pw6pwrDfPb
– TRT Arabic (@trtarabi) July 26, 2025
A call for protection
Malihat said that what is required immediately financial and in -kind compensation for farmers and educators to reduce economic collapse, enhance security and protection in the areas of gatherings through joint patrols and cooperation with human rights organizations, accurately documenting attacks in cooperation with local and international bodies to ensure accountability of the responsible, and support sustainable development programs that focus on building a strong infrastructure for water, agriculture and grazing.
According to Malihat, the number of Bedouin gatherings in the West Bank is 212, 64 of which were displaced, bringing the population of 9,000.
According to the data of the Palestinian Wall Resistance and Settlement Authority, the settlers tried last July to establish 18 new settlement outposts, while they actually succeeded in establishing 23 foci – most of them pastoral – in the first half of 2025.
The authority’s data shows that the settlers carried out 2,619 attacks in the West Bank since the beginning of this year that caused the death of 8 Palestinians and destroying about 14,900 trees, including about 7,800 olive trees.
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