JERICHO, March 5, 2025 (WAFA) -Israeli colonizers raided Wednesday Arab al-Mlaihat village in the Ma'arjat area, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, according to a local activist.

Hassan Mlaihat, the general supervisor of the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, told WAFA that a group of colonizers broke into and ransacked a sheep pen belonging to a local shepherd.

He added that the colonizers roamed among the villagers’ dwellings, spreading panic among the community.

He stressed that these raids were an integral part of an integrated plan aimed at targeting Bedouin communities through continuous restrictions as a prelude to stealing their land and displacing them to make room for settler-colonialism.

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-eighties, people of al-Mlaihat were sent out from the 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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