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Expulsion status: Entire community driven out
Number of clusters: 2
Number of families: 36
Number of persons: 228
Number of minors: 108
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In recent years — and especially since 7 October 2023 — there has been a sharp increase in both the number and severity of settler attacks against Palestinians. The incidents reported on this blog do not reflect all incidents of settler violence in the West Bank, but only those that B’Tselem was able to document and investigate.


Displaying 1-16 of 16 updates. An update can cover more than one incident.

2025

July
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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1
Residents of Badu al-Mu’arajat East (Mleihat) dismantle their homes ahead of the community’s departure. Photo by ‘Aref Daraghmeh, B’Tselem, 4 July 2025
Residents of Badu al-Mu’arajat East (Mleihat) dismantle their homes ahead of the community’s departure. Photo by ‘Aref Daraghmeh, B’Tselem, 4 July 2025
Badu al-Mu’arrajat East, Jordan Valley: Another community forcibly displaced through state-backed settler violence

2024

December
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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1
Badu a-Mu’arrajat East (al-Ka’abneh), Jericho District: Israeli settlers attacked houses with stones and set fire to a shed
October
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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1
Badu al-Mu’arrajat East, Jordan Valley: Israeli settlers entered Palestinian school property and threatened residents over the installation of security cameras
September
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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1
Israeli settlers invaded a school in the Palestinian community of al-Mu’arrajat East (al-Mleihat) and assaulted activists, a student and the principal with sticks
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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Goats poisoned by settlers in the community of Badu a-Mu’arrajat (Mleihat). Photo: ‘Aref Daraghmeh, B’Tselem
Goats poisoned by settlers in the community of Badu a-Mu’arrajat (Mleihat). Photo: ‘Aref Daraghmeh, B’Tselem
Badu a-Mu’arrajat East (Mleihat): Israeli settlers poisoned a flock of goats belonging to a Palestinian family, killing 83 goats
May
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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1
The settlers in the community. Photo courtesy of local residents
The settlers in the community. Photo courtesy of local residents
Al-Mu’arrajat East (Mleihat), Jordan Valley: Israeli settlers drove ATV in Palestinian tent compound
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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Community of al-Mu’arrajat East (Mleihat), Jordan Valley: Israeli settlers grazed sheep in Palestinian tent compound and entered their sheep pens
February
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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1
The same settler entered the community, wandered among homes and harassed residents.
January
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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1
At around 9:00 A.M., a settler ran over 12 goats that were crossing a road, killing 10 of them. He put them in his vehicle and left, leaving 2 injured goats behind.
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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1
Around 8:00 A.M., a settlement security guard and Border Police officers came to the community and checked the ID cards of residents and of teachers at the local school. They also searched the teachers’ private cars.
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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On the morning, settlers and soldiers arrived at the eastern part of the community and informed the residents they were forbidden to set their flocks to graze on nearby land. They installed iron rods in front of their tents, as preparation for setting up a fence that would block their access to the land. If the fence is erected, more than 15 families will remain without pastureland for their flocks.

2023

December
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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1
On 16 December, and for several days after, some settlers arrived, with a military escort, at an area near the community and harassed residents and shepherds by shouting and singing loudly.
November
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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1
On 28 November 2023, at around 20:00 P.M., about five armed settlers and soldiers known to the residents as area settlers, some of them masked, arrived at the community. They roamed among the tents, broke into them and searched them, claiming they lost sheep, meanwhile, cutting off one tent from the electricity supplied using solar panels. A verbal confrontation developed between the residents and the settlers and soldiers, during which the latter assaulted some of the residents, pushed them and hit them with their rifle butts. The settlers and soldiers stole some 15 sheep and left with them.
July
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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1
Community of al-Mu’arrajat east, Jericho District: Rifle-toting Israeli settler enters tents, searching them with the military’s protection
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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1
The settler filming homes in the community. Photo courtesy of local residents
The settler filming homes in the community. Photo courtesy of local residents
Al-Mu’arrajat Community (Mleihat), Jericho District: Israeli settlers walk around tent encampment, filming community residents

2022

June
Badu al-Mu’arrajat east (Mleihat)
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1
Al-Mu’arrajat, Jordan Valley: Settlers attack shepherd on pastureland; soldiers beat and arrest Palestinians trying to fend them off
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