The Jerusalem Governorate said illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers have established another pastoral colonial outpost near the Ma’azi Jaba Bedouin community north of occupied Jerusalem, part of a rapidly expanding policy aimed at seizing Palestinian land and pushing Bedouin communities toward forced displacement.
According to the Governorate, 23 pastoral outposts now operate across the Jerusalem district, concentrated in the eastern and northern belts. These outposts surround 37 Bedouin communities with more than 7,000 residents, all facing mounting pressure targeting their presence and continuity.
The Governorate explained that pastoral outposts have evolved into a central tool of the Israeli colonial project, used to seize mountain ridges, hills, and natural grazing areas outside existing colonies. Over time, these sites are converted into permanent colonial extensions tied to Israeli infrastructure.
It added that attacks on Bedouin communities follow a consistent and organized pattern: colonizers take over strategic high ground, establish pastoral outposts, and gradually expand them, creating new facts on the ground that block Palestinians from reaching agricultural lands and grazing areas, restrict movement, and fragment Palestinian geographic continuity.
Bedouin communities from Mikhmas to Wadi an‑Nar face continuous violations, beginning with denial of infrastructure and basic services and escalating to land confiscation and property seizure.
Daily attacks include assaults on residents and shepherds, livestock theft, destruction of wheat and barley crops, cutting water lines, and preventing access to natural grazing areas.
Israeli forces provide protection for these attacks while simultaneously carrying out invasions and abductions targeting Palestinian residents, reinforcing policies of coercion and forced displacement.
During the first half of 2026, the Governorate documented 269 colonizer attacks, including 52 physical assaults, resulting in the killing of three Palestinians: Nasrallah Mohammad Abu Siyam of Mikhmas, Murad Shweiki of al‑‘Ezariya and Mohammad Faraj al‑Malhi of Sharafat. Several others sustained injuries of varying severity.
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