18 Palestinian Shepherding Communities Have Been Recently Erased in the West Bank. This One Might Be Next

[Nanjeanne]

Settlers have harassed a Bedouin hamlet near Jericho for years, but during the war they have ramped up the intimidation. Clad in army uniforms, equipped with army vehicles, the pogromists have seized land in the area and set up 13 new outposts – all since October

The community's leaders are desperate; they don't know how to carry on from here. The people of Arrab al-Milihat have lived on this land for decades, and are on the brink of cracking. If the situation persists, they too will be forced to abandon their homes and leave – and the settlers' unrestrained violence will chalk up yet another success.

There is no one to save Arrab al-Milihat. The army is, patently, collaborating with the settlers, along with the military government's Civil Administration, and the police aren't lifting a finger. A population transfer, as silent as it is violent, is proceeding here unimpeded. The ethnic cleansing of the Jordan Valley is at its height. Since the start of the war, inhabitants of at least 18 pastoral communities have abandoned their homes in the West Bank, driven out by settler terror. In this area, on the ridge of the central Jordan Valley, four entire communities and another 25 lone families have left, according to the data of Aref Daraghmeh, the local field researcher for the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem. And all due to the intimidation of settlers.

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"All the Palestinians have been afraid since the war started," says Daraghmeh, the field researcher. "A 16-year-old settler can beat an elderly man and everyone will be afraid" even to respond. "A boy can order 20 Palestinians to get off their land – and they will be afraid. Thirteen new settler outposts have appeared since the war started" in the Jordan Valley alone, Daraghmeh adds. On one occasion, he says, a settler told the shepherds, "I am looking toward the horizon. Everything I see is mine."

Daraghmeh had an inscription on the screensaver of his laptop: "We are all born equal," in Hebrew, English and Arabic. On one occasion, a soldier who arrested him and saw the motto, told him, "You are a terrorist. You are like Hamas. B'Tselem is like Hamas."

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[2naSalit]

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Needs exposure.

[David__77]

2. The response is to send more weapons.