Settlers escalate attacks in the Jordan Valley and Ramallah, besieging livestock herders

On Saturday, settlers continued to escalate their attacks in various areas of the West Bank, targeting livestock herders, farmers, and their properties, pushing residents into difficult situations that threaten their livelihoods.

The attacks included expelling herders from their pastures in the northern Jordan Valley, grazing sheep among residents' homes in the village of Fasa'il al-Wusta north of Jericho, and acts of sabotage in the plain of Al-Mughayyir village east of Ramallah, where settlers attacked agricultural lands and homes, exposing residents to direct dangers.

Palestinian sources reported that settlers forced livestock herders in the northern Jordan Valley to leave their lands and prevented them from grazing there, in a clear continuation of their escalation against citizens and their properties. In the village of Fasa'il al-Wusta, settlers grazed their sheep among the residents' homes and stormed the home of the Abayat family, a move that Hassan Malihat, the general supervisor of the Al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, considered part of a series of escalating violations against residents in the area.

Al-Mughayyir village, east of Ramallah, also witnessed settler attacks on agricultural lands near the Al-Khalayel area, where crops and residents' properties were sabotaged, following a similar attack two days earlier in the southern part of the village, which included a direct assault on residents while they were grazing their livestock.

These attacks reflect a recurring pattern through which settlers seek to impose control over lands and displace residents, in the absence of effective protection mechanisms for those affected.

The escalating violations against residents in the area are part of a series of attacks aimed at imposing control and displacing citizens.