JERUSALEM, January 29, 2026 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists on Thursday morning attacked the al-Ma’azi Bedouin community near the town of Jaba’, northeast of Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem Governorate reported that colonists launched an attack on the community; however, no confrontations were reported.

Local sources said that the repeated attacks by colonists on the al-Ma’azi community aim to seize hundreds of dunums of land to expand the Adam colonial settlement on Jaba’ lands and connect it with the Binyamin settlement, creating geographic continuity between the two.

The community is home to around 200 people, including approximately 40 families and 70 children under the age of 18, living in harsh conditions without basic necessities.

Communities around Jerusalem continue to face ongoing assaults by colonists and Israeli occupation forces, as part of a policy targeting the displacement of Palestinian residents, particularly in Bedouin communities surrounding occupied Jerusalem, to facilitate settlement expansion and colonial projects.

Official, rights, and UN reports indicate that more than 33 Palestinian Bedouin communities have been displaced since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023, across 66 locations in the West Bank, leading to the forced transfer of 2,373 residents.

This has allowed colonists to seize hundreds of thousands of dunums previously occupied by these communities and establish 114 new colonial settlement outposts.

T.R.