More than 20 Palestinian families flee the village of Ras Ain al-Auja in the West Bank

More than 20 Palestinian families have fled the Bedouin village of Ras Ain al-Auja in the central occupied West Bank due to ongoing settler attacks.

Human rights organizations reported that 26 families have left the village, which was home to about 700 people belonging to more than 100 families, who had lived there for decades.

They explained that the families forced to leave last Thursday dispersed throughout the area in search of a safer place, while several other families were packing their belongings and preparing to leave the village today, Sunday.

Despite what were described as "intolerable" harassments by settlers living in unauthorized outposts around the village, Palestinian residents vowed to stay in their homes and not leave.

Sarit Michaeli, the international director of B'Tselem, said, "This makes them among the last remaining Palestinians in the area," confirming that the escalation of violence by settlers has already led to the emptying of neighboring Palestinian villages in the strip of land extending from Ramallah in the west to Jericho along the Jordanian border in the east.

The concern of residents of Palestinian Bedouin communities in the occupied West Bank is escalating with the increasing attacks by Israeli settlers and their seizure of vital lands and resources as part of what is known as "pastoral settlement," a strategy followed by settler groups by sending groups of settlers to gradually seize land.

It is worth noting that the United Nations stated that settlers launched an average of 8 attacks daily last October, and at least 136 attacks were recorded the following month.

The sanctions announced by America, the European Union, and Britain against settler groups for their violence against Palestinians in the West Bank have not prevented them from continuing their attacks.

The occupation government supports and arms settler militias to attack Palestinians in Bedouin communities and villages, forcing them to migrate after destroying and burning their homes, seizing thousands of dunams of their grazing lands and water springs, and establishing settlements on their land under the pretext of providing grazing areas for settlers' livestock.