The remaining fourteen Palestinian families in the Umm al-Jimal Bedouin community, located in the northern Jordan Valley, have been compelled to dismantle their residences and vacate the area due to increasing assaults and serious violations by fanatic, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, supported by Israeli occupation forces.
Official reports state that 14 families were forced out of the Umm al-Jimal community following a surge in settler aggression, which included the appropriation of water sources, the closure of grazing lands, home invasions, harassment of women and children, confiscation of vehicles and agricultural machinery, livestock theft, and the establishment of a colonialist outpost near their homes.
Mo’taz Bisharat, a Palestinian official responsible for the Israeli colonies’ file in Tubas and the Northern Plains of the Jordan Valley, stated that the last Palestinian families in the community relocated to a safer area due to the intensification of settler abuses against the local population.
He noted that the forced migration of families from the community had commenced several months earlier.
The semi-annual report from the Wall and Colonization Resistance Commission indicates that actions taken by the Israeli occupation and its paramilitary colonizers have resulted in the displacement of five Palestinian Bedouin communities, comprising eighteen families of 118 individuals, since the beginning of this year.
Additionally, 24 Palestinian Bedouin communities, consisting of 266 families and 1,517 individuals, have been displaced from their homes to other locations since October 7, 2023.
The five affected communities include Matallet Thieb, Jiftlik, and Ein As-Sukhon in the Jericho and Jordan Valley Governorate; Al-Nassariya in the Nablus Governorate; Al-Farisiyya in the Tubas and Northern Jordan Valley Governorate; and Wadi Obeyyat in the Bethlehem Governorate.
On Friday, a group of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked farmers, before Israeli soldiers abducted a father, his son, and the father’s three brothers, in the town of Kafr ad-Dik, west of Salfit in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
Earlier, a young man, Waheeb Mahyoub Ad-Dik, 20, suffered head contusions due to an assault by the soldiers who beat him with rifles while he was on his land in the town.
Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory.”
