JERICHO, Thursday, May 30, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists Thursday evening stormed the Bedouin community of Arab al-Mlaihat, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, according to a local activist.

Hasan Mlaihat, supervisor of the al-Baidar Organization in Defense of Bedouin Rights, said that colonists driving vehicles barged their way into the community for the second time within 24 hours, and provocatively wandered around the houses.

He added that the colonists’ raid into the community was part of the Israeli occupation's ongoing policy of displacing the community to make room for colonial expansion.

According to the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ), the Arab al-Mlaihat come originally from Negev; people of this area were forcefully expelled to live in different places of the West Bank due to their nomadic nature.  In the mid-1980s, people of al-Mlaihat were sent out from al-Irqa area to Maghair al-Dair, which is only 7km away from it, claiming the area a military closed zone by Israel.

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