JORDAN VALLEY, February 26, 2026 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists began fencing off on Thursday additional Palestinian-owned lands in Ein al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley.

Mahdi Daraghmeh, head of the Al-Maleh Village Council and the Bedouin communities, said that dozens of colonists began installing iron posts in preparation for laying barbed wire fencing near residents' tents in Ein al-Hilweh.  

Over the past months, colonists  have fenced off hundreds of dunams of grazing and agricultural land across different areas of the northern Jordan Valley.

The area witnessed a dangerous escalation in colonist attacks against Palestinian residents and their property, which has forced approximately 20 Palestinian families to leave the al-Mayta and al-Burj communities.

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