Jericho - Saba:
This Friday morning, 30 new Palestinian families were forcibly displaced from the Arab al-Malihat community, located at the end of the Al-Mu'arrajat Road, northwest of Jericho, due to repeated attacks by Israeli occupation forces and settlers.
The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported that 30 families were forcibly displaced from the community since this morning, having begun dismantling their tents and leaving due to the provocative practices and repeated attacks they face from settlers and the Israeli army.
The agency added that 20 other families were displaced yesterday, Thursday, out of 85 families residing in the Arab al-Malihat community. All 500 families are threatened with displacement, comprising approximately 500 people.
She noted that settlers, under the protection of the Israeli army, have recently been launching escalating attacks against the community, the most recent of which was a few days ago, when they established a settlement outpost in front of a home.
Hassan Malihat, General Supervisor of the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, said that the remaining families in the Arab al-Malihat community are also preparing to leave in the coming period.
He noted that the settlers held a provocative "party" after the families began leaving the community, and that they also set up a new tent this morning.
Malihat confirmed that the settler outposts have become centers of constant assault and a daily source of terror. Residents are subjected to a systematic campaign that includes beatings, the destruction of tents, the theft and poisoning of livestock, and control of road entrances, all under the protection and surveillance of the Israeli army, police, and authorities.
He explained that the explicit and deliberate establishment of a settlement outpost in front of citizens' homes is tantamount to a declaration of psychological warfare and a clear message of expulsion.
Malehat stressed that what is happening in the community portends a recurrence of the pattern of forced displacement in the rest of the Jordan Valley and the West Bank. Settlers had established a new settlement outpost on Wednesday near the Arab Malehat community, located only 150 meters from residents' homes. They brought herds of livestock with them, erected pens, and set up tents.
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