LONDON: The Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights reported on Tuesday that 20 Palestinian families have been forced to relocate from their houses in the Shallal Al-Auja hamlet north of Jericho due to repeated attacks by Israeli settlers.
According to the organization, the families are members of the Az-Zayed clan, one of the few Bedouin communities still living in the Jordan Valley and the occupied West Bank. It further stated that limited access to land and water, together with settlement policies, are endangering their way of life. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the clan has experienced an increase in attacks by settlers in recent months, including threats, property vandalism, and denial of access to pastures.
According to Al-Baidar, the settlers’ activities “were an integral part of a structured scheme to displace indigenous Palestinians from the Jordan Valley and take over their land to make room for colonial settlement construction.
The West Bank is home to roughly 500,000 Israeli settlers and 3 million Palestinians, excluding East Jerusalem, which Israel invaded and annexed in 1967. The families are from the Az-Zayed clan, which is one of the few Bedouin communities still living in the Jordan Valley and the occupied West Bank.
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