Israeli Settlers Erase Ras Ain al-Auja, Forcing 120 Bedouin Families From West Bank

In the West Bank, Ras Ain al-Auja is described as being “erased from the map by Israel,” with the article saying that “most of its 120 families have been forcibly displaced” by Israeli settlers supported by the state after relentless attacks.

“Ras Ain al-Auja was one of the largest Palestinian Bedouin villages in the West Bank”

Agence Media Palestine

The Agence Media Palestine account says Israeli shepherds, “mostly armed,” burst between houses as residents were dismantling their homes, seizing the flowering valley of Ras Ain al-Auja and driving out most of the village’s 120 families.

Agence Media Palestine

It also reports that between August 2024 and May 2025, “more than 2,200 sheep were stolen in at least five attacks,” including “About 1,500” stolen in a single night.

Village spokesperson Salameh Mahmoud Salameh told Mondoweiss from the village, “We live under siege by the settlers,” adding, “We fear they will burn our village.”

In the occupied West Bank, L’Humanité describes Bedouin communities being driven off their lands by settlers from “the east of Ramallah to Jericho,” saying that “In Area C, ethnic cleansing is underway.”

The same report says the area between Ramallah and Jericho covers “about 150,000 dunams, i.e., 150 sq km of the 5,860 sq km of the occupied West Bank,” and that it lies in Area C where “administration and security fall exclusively under the Israeli occupier.”

Amnesty International

It quotes Bedouin chief Habes Kaabneh saying, “For five years, the settlers have been harassing us, preventing us from moving as we usually do.”

Le Monde.fr describes the Jordan Valley hamlets as “emptying one after another,” and says Mouarrajat, where “seventy-five Bedouin families had lived for decades,” is now “little more than a ghost town.”

WAFA reports that Israeli colonists forced a Bedouin family to leave the area west of the village of Al-Auja, north of Jericho, on Thursday morning, May 14, 2026.

WAFA says the Al-Baydar human rights organization stated that the family of Ibrahim Suleiman Kaabneh, “consisting of seven members,” had previously been displaced from the Furush Beit Dajan area before being subjected to a new displacement operation that forced them to flee towards the northern Jordan Valley.

The WAFA account frames the action as part of “an ongoing war waged by the occupation forces targeting Bedouin communities to force them to leave for settlement purposes.”

In Le Monde.fr, Souleiman Mleihat, 34, is quoted saying the settlers burned Mouarrajat, and the article says he watches the place where his family lived for “forty-five years” from a hill seven kilometers away.