Tubas – Ma’an – Extremist settlers forced two families to leave their homes in Wadi al-Faw in the northern Jordan Valley on Thursday.
The official in charge of the Jordan Valley file in Tubas Governorate, Moataz Basharat, said that the settler gangs forced the families of Mahmoud Khaled Khalil Kaabneh and Walid Khaled Kaabneh to evacuate their homes and leave, in a policy pursued by the settlers and the occupation army to forcibly displace the residents, after a series of crimes were committed against them to force them to leave.
Minister Mu’ayyad Shaaban, head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, said that the title of forced displacement of Bedouin communities still carries a dangerous connotation in light of the methodology adopted by the occupying state in imposing a coercive, repellent environment on these communities, represented by terror, intimidation and threats, in addition to deprivation of grazing, water sources and services.
Shaaban added that the ongoing settler attacks have so f
ar led to the displacement of more than 28 Bedouin communities, including 311 families, from their places of residence to other places, the latest of which was the Wadi al-Faw community in the northern Jordan Valley.
Shaaban explained that since the beginning of 2024, settlers have carried out approximately 1,760 attacks, which led to the martyrdom of 9 citizens in various areas of the Palestinian territories, adding that 32% of these attacks targeted Bedouin communities concentrated in the eastern slopes and the Palestinian Jordan Valley, with a direct intent to target these communities and force them to leave, in a serious and grave violation of the most basic rules of international law.
Shaaban pointed out that the Settlement Council, the brutal arm of the Civil Administration, has begun imposing heavy fines on citizens in the Jordan Valley in order to pressure them and push them to leave, noting that since the beginning of 2024, fines of up to 430,000 shekels have been imposed on citizens as punishment
for grazing sheep on their lands, stressing that this measure is nothing more than one of the manifestations of official state terrorism and a tool of brutality against the most basic rights of Palestinian citizens.
Shaaban called on our people everywhere not to be lenient with the audacity and terror of the settler militias, and the necessity of following up on these attacks popularly and legally in order to enforce the judicial prosecution whether before the official national authorities or international organizations. Shaaban renewed his demand for all Palestinian national institutions, factions, unions and labor forces to stand up to their supreme national responsibility by taking practical and direct measures to stand by our people in these gatherings, especially in the Palestinian Jordan Valley and Masafer Yatta, by joining and activating the night protection committees and continuous public presence, adding that any delay in this responsible national move would push the plans for displacement and expu
lsion of citizens forward and allow the settlers to impose facts on the ground.
Source: Maan News Agency