Overview
- Over two dozen families have left in recent days, including 26 on Thursday, with several more packing up on Sunday, according to residents and rights groups.
- About 20 of roughly 120 families from the hamlet’s western section departed Thursday after a week of intensified harassment by settlers from nearby outposts, Haaretz reports.
- Villagers describe thefts, blocked roads, night intrusions into homes, and attacks on children that have curtailed grazing and daily movement.
- Rights groups say settlers established a new outpost near homes in December, increasing incursions into the community, while Israeli authorities did not respond to requests for comment.
- Displaced families have scattered to areas near Jericho and Hebron, and B’Tselem says similar violence since October 2023 has uprooted more than 2,000 Palestinians from at least 44 communities.