Report By PeaceNow: Hundreds of residents from Mu’arrajat, a Palestinian village north of Jericho, were forcibly displaced from their homes last night due to ongoing settler harassment. In recent years, settlers have established outposts surrounding the community.
From these outposts, settlers routinely harassed residents, blocking grazing, issuing threats, attacking people, and stealing livestock. In February, settlers set fire to the community’s mosque and a resident’s tractor. Watch on YouTube
In recent weeks, settler harassment intensified: settlers entered between homes, sat for hours in residents’ yards, threatened them, and demanded they leave. On Wednesday, settlers established a new outpost just meters from the community school. The family living nearby was forced to flee, and their property was looted.
Israeli security forces ignored repeated calls from residents to remove the invading settlers. Soldiers and Border Police officers were even documented sitting with them in the new outpost adjacent to the community. Watch on X
On Thursday night, dozens of settlers entered the village. That was the final blow—the residents fled. Watch on X
Peace Now: “The Israeli government is responsible for this crime. It funds and encourages the violent outposts; police and security forces grant violent settlers total immunity. The settlers’ shepherding outposts are militias executing the government’s policy of annexation and expulsion.”
For more, see Peace Now and Kerem Navot’s report:
The Bad Samaritan: Land Grabbing by Settlers Through Grazing
