On Sunday morning, 25 January 2026, four families, numbering 19 people, including 11 minors, had to take down their homes in the community of al-Hadidiyah in the northern Jordan Valley, where they had lived for decades, and move to the Hebron area.
In recent months, the community has suffered attacks and repeated harassment by settlers, who invade the community, wander around the homes, threaten to harm the families if they do not leave, attempt to empty their water tanks and prevent them from accessing pastureland. The settlers come from the direction of the outpost Havat Beqaot, established in early 2023 about four kilometers west of the community, and the outpost Ro’ei Avraham, established in November 2025 about 200 meters northeast of the community’s homes. In addition, the settlers put up a fence that runs a few meters north of the community, blocks access to pastureland and separates the community’s families from one another.
In early January 2026, several families from the community tried to set up tents in the village of al-Jiftlik, on a plot of land they rented from a local resident to serve as an alternative place of residence where they would not be harassed by settlers. However, officials from the settlement regional council of Arvot Hayarden and Civil Administration personnel confiscated their vehicle and everything they had brought with them, and gave them heavy fines for “building without a permit on state land.”.
Ten families currently remain in the community, living in two clusters and subjected to attacks, harassment and attempted expulsion by settlers from these two outposts. Recently, guards from the settlement of Ro’i have been preventing community residents from grazing their flocks on their privately owned land, claiming that they are forbidden from approaching within 500 meters of the settlement.
