On Thursday, 20 November 2025, at around 6:30 A.M., Gilad Amusi, an Israeli settler from the outpost of Havat Tene Yarok, entered the community of Nab’a al-Ghazal, in al-Farisiyah in the northern Jordan Valley, and tried to prevent a flock from going out to pasture north of the community. Amusi was under a restraining order to stay away from the community at the time. The outpost was established around 2012 near the settlement of Rotem, at a distance of about one kilometer southeast of the community, on the other side of Route 578.
The settler ran from an outpost point (known as “pergola”) that he and other settlers built in May 2025 on a hill adjacent to the community to the east. He drove the sheep that had begun going out to pasture back toward the houses, on both sides of the wire fence he and other settlers set up around July of 2025, north of the community’s homes, on the way to pastureland. The fence is located at a distance of between two and about 70 meters from the community’s homes.
The flock, which belongs to brothers Luai (43) and Barakat (44) Abu Muhsen, gathered near the opening in the fence, and Amusi continued trying to prevent it from going out to pasture. When Luai approached the opening in the fence with the flock, holding a piece of plastic pipe used for sheep herding, the settler went up to him, confronted him, then pushed him and knocked him down. In response, Luai and Barakat tried to push the settler away from there, and he pulled out pepper spray and sprayed it in their faces, causing breathing difficulties and vomiting.
The settler went back toward the outpost point (pergola). Shortly afterward, soldiers and many settler vehicles from the area arrived, including Didi Amusi, Gilad’s father, who drove with two soldiers to the pastureland where the community’s flocks were grazing. The soldiers detained Barakat Abu Muhsen and his 19-year-old nephew Yazan, tied their hands, put them in the settler’s vehicle and brought them back to the community’s area, where the soldiers transferred Barakat to the military jeep, took him to a base and held him for about six hours blindfolded and handcuffed.
Six families currently live in the community of Nab’a al-Ghazal, numbering 31 people, including 19 children, all from the extended Abu Muhsen family: brothers ‘Ali and Hussein Abu Muhsen, the family of Murad, ‘Ali’s late son, Barakat and Luai, ‘Ali’s sons and their families, and Ahmad, Hussein’s son, and his family.
On 12 September 2024, at the request of Luai Abu Muhsen, the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court issued a restraining order against Gilad Amusi due to threatening harassment, for a period of six months, until 11 March 2025. On 18 March 2025, the order was extended for an additional two months, until 18 May 2025, and on 11 August 2025, another restraining order was issued to keep him away from the community, valid until 11 December 2025.
The order prohibits Amusi from coming within 30 meters of the residential compound of Luai Abu Muhsen and his extended family, harassing Abu Muhsen in any way and in any place, making any contact with Abu Muhsen verbally, in writing or by any other means, stalking him, ambushing him, tracing his movements or actions, or infringing upon his privacy in any other way.
The restraining orders were issued after Amusi repeatedly harassed members of the community. He would enter the residential compound almost daily, go inside yards, invade homes, rummage through community members’ belongings, sit inside the community, at the house entrances and even on residents’ chairs, smoke and make coffee on a camping stove, ride an ATV at high speed between the community’s houses, and more.
On 1 May 2025, dozens of settlers, including Gilad Amusi, arrived at a hill near the community and built a wooden pergola at a distance of about 50 meters east of the residential compound. About ten months earlier, on 11 July 2024, Didi Amusi, Gilad’s father, from the outpost of Havat Tene Yarok, and Daniel Ran, the civilian security coordinator of the settlement of Rotem, both built on the other side of Route 578, at a distance of about one kilometer southeast of the community of Nab’a al-Ghazal, cleared a path from the Rotem junction westward up to that same hill and placed two concrete blocks on it. In addition, starting in May 2024, on various occasions, settlers placed four to five iron poles with Israeli flags on that hill and around the community, at a distance of about 30 to 50 meters from the houses.
On 9 June 2025, about eight settlers, including Gilad Amusi, arrived at the site and began hammering in iron poles and putting up a wire fence at a distance ranging from two to about 70 meters from the community’s residential compound. The fence, which is about 168 meters long, blocks the passage of the community’s flocks to the grazing areas north and east of it. On Wednesday, 27 August 2025, a Civil Administration vehicle arrived, with a police officer and a Civil Administration officer, who placed a stop-work order for the fence and the pergola. The order noted that a court hearing on the demolition was scheduled for 17 September 2025, but whether the hearing took place remains unknown.