Al -Jazeera Net Correspondents
5/7/2025–|Last update: 07:59 (Mecca time)
Ramallah- The attacks of the Israeli settlers and their repeated attacks forced about 70 Palestinian families, whose number of their members is about 500 on immigration, leaving the memories of more than half a century, in the Arab Al -Malihat Al -Badawi gathering, northwest of the city of Jericho, east. West Bank.
“70 families from the Bedouin Arab Al -Malihat gathering dismantled their homes, packed their luggage, left, or on the verge of leaving,” the general supervisor of the Bedouin Organization for the Defense of the Rights of the Bedouins, Hassan Malihat, told Al -Jazeera Net.
He added that the number of members of the displaced families exceeds 500, all of them dispersed and distributed over several areas in the vicinity of the city of Jericho.
He stated that the presence of the population in the Arab Al -Mulaihat gathering extends to the seventies of the last century, expressing his regret for the betrayal at the various levels they lived for a period of 22 months and more.
He pointed to repeated attacks by the settlers on the gathering in the last two years, including the attack on the population, the storming of homes and theft of feed, indicating that the attacks reached their climax in recent days by setting up a settlement focus along the homes.
The human rights activist revealed the establishment of 6 settlement outposts in the Al -Maarjat area between the cities of Jericho Ramallah Only during the last month.
Earlier on Friday, Al -Bidar said – in a statement – that what happened in the gathering “an organized attack led by the settlement occupation arms with the aim of uprooting the population from their land without official orders or decisions, but rather weapons and direct threats, which are war crimes and described aggression.”
And considered that “what is happening in Arab Al -Mulaihat warns of repeating a pattern Forced displacement In the rest of the Jordan Valley And the West Bank“Demanding” real international intervention, which is not satisfied with verbal condemnation, but rather imposes deterrent measures on the occupation and the settlers, and guarantees the actual protection of the population. “
According to a previous statement by the Al -Baydar Organization, the evacuation of the assembly with the spread of settlement foci means “creating a settlement bloc that actually controls a vital corridor that connects the north of the West Bank to the south, and separates Jericho from the center of the West Bank, and narrows every Palestinian movement in the area between the wound (Qara) and heights Ramallah (west)”.
She described what is happening in Al -Maarjat as “a gradual catastrophe implemented without noise, without public bulldozers or direct forced deportation (…) that cannot be read in isolation from the vast Israeli policy aimed at emptying the classified areas” C “from its Palestinian residents, especially the Bedouins.”
The region “C” is formed according to a classification Oslo agreement About 60% of the West Bank is under complete Israeli control.
For his part, the Director General of Documentation and Publishing in the Wall Resistance Authority revealed And settlement Amir Dawood for the displacement of 32 Palestinian gatherings in the West Bank since the beginning of the aggression on Gaza since October 7, 2023.
He added that the number of displaced families today exceeded 345, estimated at the number of their members.
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Residents of the Arab Al -Malihat Bedouin gathering north of Jericho are forced to leave their gathering as a result of the repeated attacks by the settlers and the occupation army. pic.twitter.com/pwOe9s4uQQ
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For his part, the head of the Wall Resistance Authority, Moayad Shaaban, said that “forcing families to force to be forcibly displaced from the Arab Al -Malihat gathering comes as part of a colonial plan to Judaize the region.”
He added in a statement that arrived in Al -Jazeera Net, that “families were forced to be forcibly displaced, came with pressure and terrorism of armed colonists and protecting from occupation army“.
According to the documentation of the Palestinian government resistance and wall, the settlers carried out more than 5,000 attacks in Gaza, including about 1,600 attacks in the first five months of this year, in addition to about 5600 attacks carried out by the army in the same months, including attacking the Palestinians and their property, killing them and forcing them to leave, igniting fires and setting up settlement foci and others.
The commission estimates the number of settlers in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, at about 770,000, distributed over 180 settlements and 256 settlement outposts, of which 138 are classified as pastoral and agricultural.