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by IMEMC News
Sep 13, 2024

Illegal Israeli colonizers carried out, on Friday, more attacks against Palestinian citizens and their property, poisoning sheep near Jericho, in addition to uprooting olive trees and demolishing an agricultural room near Jenin, in the northeastern and northern parts of the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian citizens found dozens of their sheep dead, at dawn Friday, from a possible poisoning in the Arab al-Mleihat Bedouin community, northwest of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.

Hasan Mleihat, the supervisor of the Al-Baidar Organization for Defending Bedouin Rights, told the WAFA News Agency that there is evidence that suggests the water supply for the livestock was poisoned, killing at least 50 heads of sheep.

Mleihat added that the sheep belonged to the brothers, Suleiman and Mohammad Ali Mleihat, and said this attack is part of a series of systematic attacks by illegal colonizers with the goal of forcing the Bedouin community to leave their land.

Meanwhile, in the northern West Bank, illegal Israeli colonizers uprooted olive trees and demolished an agricultural room, in the village of Jaba’, southwest of Jenin, on Friday.

Abbas Ghanem, the head of Jaba’ village council, told WAFA that a group of illegal settlers uprooted dozens of olive trees and razed an agricultural structure belonging to local citizens.

Media sources said that the colonizers that perpetrated the attack came from the repopulated “Homesh” settlement, built on expropriated Palestinian lands.
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Israeli forces detain three activists in Bedouin community near Jericho for confronting colonists

JERICHO, September 15, 2024 (WAFA) - Israeli occupation forces detained three peace activists in the Arab al-Melihat Bedouin community, located northwest of Jericho after they tried to prevent colonists from herding sheep in local farmers' pastures.

Hassan Malihat, the general supervisor of the Al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, reported that Israeli forces stormed the community and detained the activists for attempting to safeguard citizens' property, including pastures and fodder.

The occupation forces also confiscated a private vehicle belonging to the activists.

The general supervisor of Al-Baydar Organization said this attack comes in the context of colonists’ escalation against the area. The area has recently been subjected to a series of attacks, the latest of which was the poisoning of dozens of sheep belonging to one of the families in the community.

He slammed such attacks as part of the occupation's efforts to tighten the noose on the Bedouin communities, with the aim of emptying West Bank areas classified as "C".

He called for increased international support to protect civilians and counter such attacks.

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