Jerusalem, January 29, 2026 (WAFA) – Settlers attacked the Bedouin community of Ma’azi Jaba’ northeast of Jerusalem on Thursday.
The Jerusalem Governorate stated that settlers attacked the Bedouin community of Ma’azi Jaba’, but no clashes were reported.
Local sources indicated that the goal of the settlers’ repeated attacks on “Ma’azi Jaba’” is to seize hundreds of dunams of land to expand the “Adam” settlement built on Jaba’ lands, and to connect it with the “Benjamin” settlement to create geographical contiguity between the two settlements.
The community includes about 200 people, including about 40 families and 70 children under the age of eighteen, living in difficult conditions that lack the minimum necessities of life.
The communities in Jerusalem are subjected to continuous attacks by settlers and Israeli occupation forces, as part of a policy aimed at displacing citizens, especially in the Bedouin communities surrounding the occupied city of Jerusalem, in favor of colonial expansion and colonial projects.
It is worth noting that official, human rights, and international reports indicate that more than 33 Palestinian Bedouin communities have been displaced since October 7, 2023, spread across 66 locations in the West Bank. This has led to the displacement of 2,373 citizens from these communities, allowing settlers to close off hundreds of thousands of dunams of land where these communities were located and to establish 114 new settlement outposts.
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