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0:02	Report by| Tania Krämer
0.06	 Ishaq Murshid Rashid | Palestinian villager
0:47	 Jamila Rashid | Palestinian villager
1:32	Source: Mistaclim
1:52	Neta Ben Porat | Activist
2:50	Jamila Rashid | Palestinian villager

((Info: :Dozens of families from one of the last Palestinian Bedouin villages in the West Bank have abandoned their homes in recent days. They say they've been forced to flee due to harassment by Israeli settlers from nearby illegal outposts. 
Ras Ain Al Auja is located north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank's Area C, an area administered by Israel. Since October 2023, the village and others in the West Bank have experienced a dramatic surge in settler violence. DW's Tania Krämer reports.))

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The pen for sheep and goats is being dismantled. It is hard for Isaac Murshid Rashid to watch. He is about to lose his home and livelihood.   
 
00:13 ++++Ishaq Murshid Rashid, ARAB. ++++ 
“They want to expel us from here, they beat and loot, they loot the sheep, they loot the people, what does that mean? Where should we go, I mean? We stay, no one protects us, no state protects us, what do we do? I've lived here for 65 years." 

Israeli rights groups say that more than 120 Palestinians have been forced to flee this village, due to attacks by Israeli settlers.  

00:46 +++Jamila Rashid, ARABIC++++ 
“It’s humiliation, pain. I mean, is there anything harder than demolishing your own home with your own hands? ((You demolish your home yourself, by force))”. 

00:53  
Ras Ain Al Auja is one of the last Palestinian Bedouin communities in the southern Jordan Valley. It’s in area C, which is under Israel’s full security and administrative control. 

Since the Hamas October 7 attack and the war in Gaza, violence by settlers from nearby outposts has surged. Throughout the occupied West Bank, over 40 communities have been driven from their homes. 
 
01:16 
Here in the village, Israeli and international activists have kept what they call “a protective presence”. They are here day and night here to shield the villagers from settler violence and displacement.  
 
They documented settlers setting up a small outpost inside the community and escalating their attack against families nearby. 
 
01:32 – 01:49 Insert source: mobile video from activist Mistaclim) 

The first families left soon after.   
 
It's a common pattern, the activists say. 
 
01:54 +++Neta Ben Porat, activist+++ 
Now there are dozens of settlers every minute in the village, harassing, stealing, beating, intimidating, filming in the houses, riding horses in the backyards, the residents can’t sleep, can’t rest, they need to be alert all the time and many decided that they can’t live that way and decided to leave.” 
 
The activists trail a young Israeli shepherd from a nearby outpost, moving his herd through the village. There is no police or army in sight to stop them. 

We asked the Israeli army what they were doing in response to the attacks. They said they had increased their presence and that if they encounter lawbreaking, they intervene.  

For Jamila Rashid, life here has become unbearable and too dangerous. 

02:24 +++Jamila Rashid, ARABIC+++ 
“They entered our kitchen yesterday while we were having lunch. All the kids got up, scared. Is there anything worse than that? I mean, our life has become a slow death. A home provides shelter and safety, but now there's none. That's the problem. What are we supposed to do?” 

Some displaced families have moved further south. But few know where they will be able to stay permanently and re-build their lives. 

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