Palestinian Families Forced to Flee West Bank Homes

Around 20 Palestinian families have been forcibly displaced from their homes in the eastern part of the occupied West Bank following a surge in settler attacks, according to a local human rights organization.

Hassan Mleihat, head of the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, said the families, who belong to the Kaabneh clan, were driven from the northern area of the Ein al-Auja Bedouin community, north of the city of Jericho. He said repeated settler assaults left residents fearing for their lives amid what he described as a complete lack of protection.

Mleihat said the families were forced to abandon their homes and livelihoods as part of what he called a systematic policy of forced displacement targeting Bedouin communities across the Jordan Valley in the West Bank.

He warned that the attacks violate international humanitarian and human rights law and called for urgent international action to halt the abuses. The affected families rely primarily on agriculture and livestock herding, making them particularly vulnerable to losing their only sources of income if the violence continues.

Rights groups say such pressure is aimed at emptying Palestinian communities from their land to pave the way for further settlement expansion.