An Israeli settler outpost stands on a hilltop near the Palestinian village of Deir Jarir, east of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on April 25, 2024. ― AFP picPALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, May 4 ― Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank say armed Jewish settlers are increasingly seizing their lands by bringing livestock to so-called shepherding outposts and refusing to leave.
One local man, Haidar Abu Makho, 50, looked sadly across to a hill where settlers’ sheep were now grazing, in the rural area near Ramallah.The land, where settlers’ bungalows and cars could be seen ringed by a wire fence, he said, “rightfully belongs to my grandfather and father and is meant to be passed down through the generations”.Israel has occupied the West Bank, home to three million Palestinians, since 1967.
Israeli analyst Elhanan Miller said the hilltop shepherds are “far-right extremists who settle Palestinian land illegally”, mostly in the southern West Bank and Jordan Valley. The groups have been especially active around Deir Jarir, a village of about around 5,000 people, said the local man, Abu Makho.
He said settlers had “aggressively confiscated” local houses and tractors as well as horses and donkeys, all “symbols of the Palestinian traditional farming life”. In areas near Deir Jarir, other residents also said they had been impacted, at great cost to their livelihoods.
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