During the month of March 2026, dozens of incidents occurred throughout the sector by settlers of Jewish farms and outposts against the Jahalin communities that have lived permanently in the area for decades, including a threatening presence, expulsion of shepherds from areas where the Bedouins have always grazed and where grazing is not prohibited, intrusion into private areas and photography inside homes, threats and harassment, damage to water lines, blinding the windows of huts and playing loud music in the middle of the night, throwing animal carcasses into huts, as well as theft of animals and property. Of these, 10 criminal incidents were recorded for which an official complaint was filed with the police or the army. Their description and documentation can be viewed on the Friends of the Jahalin website (under reports from the field). The remaining incidents were not recorded due to the lack of photographs or due to the fact that they did not reach the threshold that justifies a complaint - "only" harassment, curses and harassment.

The attackers are dozens of young people living on farms built in the past year near the Jahalin communities and who openly declare their intention to make life miserable for the Bedouins who have lived there for decades so that they will abandon their place of residence and livelihood. They do not shy away from harming innocent people and imposing daily terror on a population that is trying to live peacefully with its environment. They do not hesitate to beat children, women and the elderly, sometimes to the point of causing bodily harm that requires hospitalization.

A young man from a nearby farm entered the community of La Nahla with his herd. He tied his donkey inside the community and declared that the Bedouins were illegal and therefore he could not gain a border.

Two tractors were observed breaking through a dirt road on private Palestinian land - apparently for a new outpost. The work, which began a week earlier and was stopped by the Civil Administration and the police, continues.

An elderly Bedouin woman who had gone out to graze her sheep in the open was attacked by three young Jews. They robbed her of money, an ID card, and stole a donkey and a goat. Volunteer activists who were present in the area with a guard followed the young men to the Kfar Adumim gas station.

Young men from the nearby farm entered the community area several times with a threatening presence, sometimes with herds and sometimes without

A bulldozer has begun breaking through an open area very close to the community, apparently for a new farm. The work is on private Palestinian land.

Residents of the community reported that Jews had come to the community and stolen from the sheep.

Young men from Aviad Farm, equipped with a walkie-talkie from the nearby community's emergency response team, blocked the passage of shepherds from the community in the open area near the Good Samaritan, while smuggling the goats. This is in an area where the Civil Administration has determined that grazing is not prohibited for Bedouins, and the area has been used for their grazing for decades.

During the day, several incidents were recorded, including a shepherd from the farm invading the community's territory and dumping a goat carcass near one of the huts. At the same time, young men from the nearby farm attacked Bedouin shepherds and attempted to stir up the herd with the aim of stealing goats.

Two similar incidents in three days. An attempt by evil ranchers to impose a grazing siege on the northern cluster of huts in the community. Any departure of the herd outside the community borders results in an attack.
In the incident of 13.3.26, after confronting the Bedouins near the community's huts, the young men from the farm began leading the Bedouin herd towards the farm in an attempt to steal it. The Bedouins were alerted and managed to drive the young men from the farm away, not violently.
The incident of 15.3.26 was similar but with more people and more violence: the Bedouin herd was grazing 50 meters from the community's houses, on the opposite side of the Jewish farm - in the open area and far from the border of Kfar Adumim. The young men from the farm went down to confront the Bedouins on foot and with a Ranger vehicle, pushing, shouting, cursing (you stinking Arab, etc.), and waving their hands. Threats that they are not allowed to leave the community with the goats, that they will burn them all tonight, that they will make sure that they will not have goats or houses, because all their land, and so on and so forth - everything is 10 meters from the community barracks.

At 1:30 a.m., residents of the nearby farm blinded the windows of the Bedouin huts with a powerful projector and laser beam.

Bedouin shepherds from the community went out to graze their flocks in the Good Samaritan area - an open desert area where they have been grazing for decades, and far from Jewish farms or settlements. Young men from the Aviad farm with the farm manager arrived armed on an ATV and stopped the shepherds. They called for soldiers who arrested one of the Bedouins. The Bedouins describe violence throughout the incident. In the commotion, the farm workers tried to direct the Bedouin herd towards the farm, but Bedouin residents from the community arrived, prevented this, and returned the herd to the community.

The manager of the nearby farm, riding an ATV, drove wildly towards the Bedouin herd grazing in an open area where grazing is not prohibited according to the Civil Administration and away from the farm.

Three young men from a nearby farm, accompanied by a dog, invaded the home of one of the Bedouins within the community. The occupants of the hut were outside the house at the time.

The water pipes leading to the community houses and sheep pens have been cut again

Young men from a nearby farm came down with their herd near the community area and prevented the Bedouin's flock from passing. The Bedouin called the police, the police arrived and ordered the Bedouins to return to their homes, claiming that "the neighbors were on a trip." The Bedouins returned and prepared for the iftar meal at the end of the Ramadan fast, and two boys (the same "trippers" from earlier) invaded one of the houses, spilled the food prepared for the meal, and broke windows. The Bedouins tried to repel the invaders while they were in the line of their houses. The young men from the farm called the army and the police, claiming that they had been attacked.

Soldiers from the nearby base in civilian clothes arrived at the community and tried to take a herd of goats, claiming that they were grazing in an area where they were not allowed and were approaching the base. According to community members, they had been grazing in the normal areas for years and were not close to the base. The shepherd, a 16-year-old boy who was with the herd, was beaten. Since the soldiers were on civilians, a message was passed among the community members that the farm people were invading the community and trying to steal goats (an incident that happened more than once in our sector). The Bedouins were called to protect the herd and a confrontation ensued, including stone throwing - which was joined by armed men from the farm. 3 Bedouins were arrested, including a mother and son with Israeli ID cards.

Armed youths from the nearby farm invaded the community area and defiantly hung Israeli flags inside the community.

Two boys from the Hatrourah community were standing near the road and were attacked with stones by two young men from a nearby farm. A confrontation ensued, during which the young men sprayed tear gas at the Bedouins from point-blank range.

At 01:30 at night, two young men, apparently from the nearby farm (young men with wigs were seen on a security camera) entered one of the huts in the community where volunteers for the Protective Presence were sleeping. Three cell phones were stolen and at the same time their vehicle parked in the community was air-conditioned. An attempt to locate the cell phones with a Track Me app failed - apparently because the SIM card was removed and the cell phone was disconnected.

The pipes carrying water to the community were cut again in what became a weekly and sometimes daily pattern of sabotage

Result: The pipes were repaired.

Four houses, a barn and another building were set on fire. The equipment was completely burned. The community, located between Mishor Adumim and Ma’ale Adumim, experienced frequent harassment from the neighboring farm.

Result: The families moved to a nearby community until the buildings were restored, and Friends of the Jahalin volunteers mobilized to donate clothing, kitchen utensils, mattresses and blankets. .

Young men from a nearby farm stole a herd of goats belonging to the community, claiming that they were grazing in an area where they were not allowed to graze. In general, according to the farm’s “decision,” nearby Bedouin communities are not allowed to graze beyond the immediate area adjacent to the community. The lack of grazing, an essential part of the families’ livelihood, deepens poverty in the community.

Young men from the farm once again entered the Bedouin residential area and wandered between the houses, violating their privacy.

The outpost members entered the community's territory with their herd, displayed a threatening presence, peeked into the Bedouin homes, and disrupted the daily routine.

Early in the morning (02:00-3:00) young people came down from the adjacent farm (initially B), sat down near the community and played music loudly on loudspeakers. They dazzled the residents with powerful flashlights into the huts, who could not sleep.

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Residents of the Aviad Farm descended on a herd of Hatrura residents in an attempt to drive them away. Yedidia, the farm manager, drove his tractor wildly towards two shepherds in an incident that almost ran them over, shouting threats and curses. The boys jumped out of their seats at the last moment. It should be clarified that the place where they were grazing is an open public area that has been used by the community for decades. Civil Administration officials confirmed that there is no obstacle to grazing there.

Young men from the Aviad farm, along with the farm manager, Yedidia, went out into the open to chase away young Bedouin men who were grazing their flock. The shepherds complained that as part of an attempt to prevent the Bedouins from grazing their sheep, there was an attempt to steal sheep from them.

Once again, the farm residents cut the pipes that bring water to the community.

In several communities, in the past two weeks, ranchers have been seen intruding with their herds into the community's territory with a threatening presence.

This is the case in the Abu Jihad community, Community 437, Khan al-Ahmar, and other communities

During the month, there were repeated incidents of young men, sometimes armed, invading two nearby farms with herds nearby and sometimes into the community, scaring residents and children with their threatening presence. In one incident of intimidation by a ranger, several children fled in terror, and one of them was injured in the head and taken to hospital.

At 1:00 AM, boys descended from the hill near the camp, played loud music, and blinded the tents with a powerful flashlight.
The event lasted about an hour

The children of the tribe went down to play. An ATV from the farm arrived at the scene, drove wildly and caused panic. The children ran away and one of them fell and hit his head. This pattern of action is repeated, with the intention of sowing fear and insecurity.
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Two young men from Aviad Farm arrived on the community's territory with the intention of violently confronting the Bedouins and causing an incident. This is a pattern of actions that has been repeated frequently recently.

On Saturday night, three masked young men in military uniforms arrived at the western cluster of houses of the community and entered a house where three young boys from the tribe (ages 13, 15, 16) were sleeping. They pulled them out and took them to a nearby house, strangled them and beat them all over their bodies. They threatened the Bedouin boys and forbade them from taking pictures. There is only a video taken from a distance in which the young men are seen arriving at the scene.

Young men from the nearby Aviad farm entered the community area with a herd of goats, blaring loud songs through loudspeakers, taking photos through the windows of residents’ homes, and lingering in the yards with a provocative and threatening presence. The pattern repeats itself – creating provocations and incitements to provoke the Bedouins into a reaction, then reporting to the army about “violent activity against them,” which leads to military intervention, false arrests (only of the Bedouins), and later also the revocation of work permits for those detained.

A group of young men from the nearby Aviad farm prevented the Bedouins from going out to graze. This is in accordance with the siege that has been imposed on the community for three weeks. Attempting to go out to graze leads to violence and calls for the army, which categorically takes the side of the farm people. Later in the day, the young men from the farm entered the community area with their herd. "Protective Presence" members managed to remove the rioters and document the event.

A young man from Havat Re'im entered the community's grounds and stole a prayer rug. In the attached photo, he can be seen leaving with his loot.

Young Jews prevented the Bedouin herds from being taken out to pasture. The police explained to the Bedouin volunteer that Jews were allowed to roam the community as long as they did not act violently. One of the young men from the farm repeatedly pushed the volunteer. A police officer responded to a call to the police that the volunteer was the one looking for a fight. Soldiers who arrived at the scene spoke disparagingly to the Bedouins and the volunteer and refused to help. Once again, the Bedouin herd did not go out to pasture.

Like almost every day in the past month, young men from the Aviad farm arrived and prevented the Bedouins from taking their herds out to pasture.
The young men stood in front of them and did not let them pass. The Israeli men did not enter the camp this time, but they did not allow the herd to leave the camp, blocking it with their bodies and with vehicles and a tractor.
They also flew a drone over the area. They were there all day from 5:00 AM to 4:00 PM. At about 3:00 PM, the army and police arrived and went to talk to the Israelis but did not say a word to the Bedouins. The Bedouins are very afraid because, as in previous cases, these young men from the farm are ready to resort to violence, there is documentation of all the events.

A serious escalation in the harassment of Bedouins. In the afternoon, young men from the farm tried to enter the Bedouin community with a herd in an attempt to mix the herds (a well-known method in Judea and Samaria to condemn Bedouin flocks). The Bedouins tried to prevent them from entering and mixing the herds, and this was right next to the houses of the Bedouin community. This created a crowd and eventually a fight between the parties. At one point, a vehicle arrived and 3-4 people got out of it and opened fire, hitting three of the Bedouins - a father and his two sons. The father was heading to Shaare Tzedek with a gunshot wound to the thigh, his son was heading to Mount Scopus with a moderately lacerated liver, and another wounded man was heading to Ramallah.

According to the Bedouin residents, the shooters chased them, shooting and even prevented assistance to the wounded.

Since the farm was established several months earlier, its residents have been preventing the Bedouins from going down to the pasture that was permitted to them by the Nature and Parks Authority and upheld by the High Court of Justice. In recent weeks, the community has experienced Repeated harassment and attacks, after decades of coexistence and complete silence between them and their Jewish neighbors in Anatot, who even vigorously opposed the establishment of the farm that harms the fabric of life (but the council moved forward without considering the residents' opinions). A few weeks before this incident, one of the farm workers was recorded shooting at the Bedouins during an attempt by the farm workers to expel the shepherds from their traditional grazing area.

At 9:00 PM, two residents of "Havat Re'im" burst onto the community grounds on a Ranger ATV and drove wildly around the huts, kicking up dust and throwing rocks at them. These incidents repeat themselves almost every night. When one of the older residents went out to ask them to stop, they fired live ammunition, without any danger to themselves and there was about 30 meters between the Bedouin resident and the young people on the farm. The police questioned the shooter and he claimed that the shooting was in "self-defense" because stones and rocks were thrown at them. A video taken from inside one of the houses proves that at no point did the shooters make contact with the residents, and no stones were thrown.

People from Aviad Farm - deploy around the Bedouin community to prevent the community's herd from going out to graze. This is done on a daily basis. If they still try to go out to graze, the farm people attack them and then call the army with the empty claim that stones were thrown at them. The army arrests the Bedouins even though there is no documentation and although they are usually released without guilt after a short time, the effect is taking its toll. This is how they terrorize them so that they do not dare to challenge and go out to graze. This is an economic suffocation for the families who currently depend on grazing for a living. Especially since every such arrest, even if it is false, leads to the denial of a work permit without the possibility of appeal. It brings the community to a standstill and this is apparently the purpose of the farm's operation. Not a security interest nor a humanitarian one.

The actions of the farm people are illegal - certainly not within the authority of citizens to carry out such policing, regardless of the fact that there is no law preventing the Bedouins from grazing in the public open space of the desert.

Several young men from Aviad Farm entered the community area with a herd, provoking the residents, threatening them and creating panic. They prevented the Bedouin herd from leaving for pasture and beat one of the residents. The Bedouins called the police, who did not arrive. On the other hand, soldiers arrived (without an interpreter) and the young men who attacked pointed to one of the Bedouins who threw stones. Again without any documentation and within the Bedouin community. The soldiers, who were without an interpreter and did not ask the Bedouins at all what had happened, arrested one of the Bedouin community members.

Three shepherds from Amiad Farm brought their flock into the community's grounds with an armed rancher watching from outside on an ATV. They roamed the yards, fed the flock with community food, glared menacingly at people and the windows of the huts, and behaved in a lordly manner.

A young man from the farm next to the community arrived on the community grounds in the evening, shouting and threatening loudly, without any prior incident.

Early this morning, a young man from a nearby farm was filmed cutting the pipes that carry water to communities in several places, in what has become a routine ritual that repeats itself once every two days.

The water pipes that supply water to the small communities have been cut again in several places, which has become a routine of harassment that occurs once or twice a day. This always happens around the time young men from the nearby farm pass by the pipe (they go there with the herds twice a day), and once a hill boy was seen damaging the pipe and was filmed running away. The expense of dozens of repairmen per month is significant for the poor communities, in addition to the frustration and anger that it causes. There is no water in the communities for several hours a day until they go to repair it, an operation that takes time and effort. A lot of water spills onto the ground until the cut is detected again and someone is free to walk along the long pipe to locate the damage.

Shepherds from the Hatrura community went out to a pasture located south of their settlement where they have been grazing their flocks for decades. The area is open in the desert, on public land, and is not close to any settlement or Jewish outpost. People from the adjacent farm arrived on an ATV, blocked their path with threats, prevented passage, and called in the army.

An ATV from the adjacent "Havat Re'im" farm drove around the huts and yards all night long, making noise and frightening noise.

During the day, a new Jewish outpost was established right above the community. At night, stones were thrown at the tin roofs of the huts.

Several young men from the nearby farm entered the community with the herd. They fed the sheep on the vegetation in the hut yards, and even entered one house. They cursed and spoke racist words.

. A Bedouin shepherd boy from the community was attacked by two young adults, who were filmed walking away from the area of the attack. The rioters also injured two sheep.
The boy is suffering from fractures and was referred for further treatment from the Jericho Medical Center to Moksad Hospital in Jerusalem for specialist treatment

An ATV from the adjacent "Havat Re'im" farm roamed among the huts at night, destroying fences in a runover.

A boy from the nearby outpost was seen cutting the water pipe that supplies the community with a knife.

The community member who watched him refrained from intervening because in his experience, in all conflicts, it is the Bedouins who are ultimately arrested. The boy was photographed after the fact.

Three Bedouin boys from the community went for a walk on a hill near the community, a few hundred meters away. One of the adult farm workers aggressively chased them away while taking pictures and shouting "Why did you throw stones?" and called the army, who arrested all three of them (handcuffed, covered their eyes with flannel, and confiscated their cell phones).
According to their testimony, the boys did not throw stones. It should be noted that they are already afraid of the armed farm workers who terrorize them, and it is indeed unlikely that such an incident occurred - especially since there was no documentation or proof. On the other hand, violent expulsion is a common phenomenon when community residents try to move away from their huts, and the farm workers violently prevent them from doing so.

Young men from the farm entered the community area, stared at the residents in a threatening manner, cursed, and finally left.

Another incident that has become a daily routine: Shepherds from the "R'eiim Farm" above Khan al-Ahmar led their sheep to the community's territory. When there is hay from the Bedouins themselves, they feed the sheep from the farm with it – and when there is none, the farm people bring their own sack of hay so that the sheep can eat in the community's territory.
When the Bedouins ask them to feed the sheep in their pen, they reply that "the whole territory is ours, including your houses, and we will soon expel you."

Boys from a nearby farm cut the pipe that supplies water to three Bedouin communities in ten different places. The repair took a long time, during which the communities were left without water supply.

At 4:00 AM, a backhoe arrived from the nearby farm with a security vehicle and demolished four residential shacks at the edge of the community, whose homes were at the time outside their home in a pasture.

Two boys from the farm armed with clubs and knives entered the Bedouin community area and confronted four adult Bedouins sitting in a tent. They threatened, cursed, and used violent and vulgar language while approaching within inches of the Bedouins. The Bedouins did not react, but instead filmed the incident.

At 05:00, about 150 Border Police officers who arrived in three buses raided the community's barracks. They collected phones and IDs, and conducted a search of the barracks that included breaking cabinets, scattering their contents, tearing open food and fodder bags, and spilling yogurt jars. Two residents did not have their IDs returned, and cash (about 3,000 NIS) was stolen from one. Nothing was found in the raid, and no one was arrested.
After the fact, and in response to a press request, a police spokesman said that the forces conducted searches following shooting incidents in the area. However, the Jahalin volunteers who live in the area are only aware of one and only one shooting incident in the past year in the area, which was also documented: a Jewish resident of one of the farms near Highway 437 fired at Bedouins who were far away and unarmed.

A shepherd from the adjacent farm leads his flock to eat the hay that the Bedouins bought with their own money for their flocks, which are blocked by the farm workers from going out to pasture.

On Friday evening, two boys entered the community area, danced and screamed songs for a long time, with the aim of harassing and intimidating. In another incident that day, a main water pipe to the community was cut.

At 04:00, a backhoe and a security vehicle arrived from the nearby farm, destroying four residential shacks at the edge of the community whose residents had gone out to pasture.
The buildings were demolished. The police and the army were notified.

The water pipes were cut again, as they were every day or two, again resulting in a prolonged water outage.
Community members located the cut and repaired the damage again.

Repeated glare of the residential shacks at night from the adjacent farm.

About twenty settlers from nearby farms came to the edge of the community's territory, threw stones, cursed and shouted at the Bedouins.

Two young men from a nearby farm passed by the community houses with their herd. According to the testimonies, they harassed a 12-year-old boy, and when he ran away, they chased him into the community.
Later, they called the Mitzpe Jericho security department and claimed that they had been attacked by the Bedouins. They did not present any documentation or proof of this. The Bedouin videos, however, indicate otherwise.

Repeated damage to the water pipe.
The damage to the pipe is visible immediately after the Jewish shepherds from the farms pass by with their flocks.

The constant harassment and attacks have taken their toll on the small Ta'al community that has lived for decades west of Mitzpe Jericho and whose homes are protected from demolition by a Getz order. Damage to the water pipes, the prevention of grazing, repeated invasion of their living area, the throwing of stones, blinding and harassment at night have caused a feeling of anxiety and lack of protection. The community has no happy place to move to, but uncertainty about the unknown is better for them than a life of constant fear.

Several boys, accompanied by an ATV from the nearby outpost, entered the community area, drove back and forth, and threw stones.

Several armed youths from the new outpost nearby came down to confront shepherds in a grazing area close to the community. They threw stones, chasing the shepherds away, and one of the youths fired into the air.

Boys from the nearby outpost cut a water pipe in three places, entered the community camp, pushed the father of the family to the floor, and threw a shower of stones. A fight broke out. Abu Tael called the police. The attacking boys who invaded the camp area claimed to have been attacked, and "identified" two of the Bedouins, claiming that they had thrown stones at them.

Sabotage occurred in several places along the community's water pipeline. In one place, a T-connector with water from a Bedouin pipe was inserted into one of the new Jewish outposts.

Patrols from Mitzpe Jericho entered the community's housing area at night with security vehicles. They explained to the volunteers of Friends of the Jahalin that "we came to show sovereignty and governance." The women of the community reported that they were blinded and threatened. There was also a complaint about a child being beaten.

Due to the closure of the usual grazing areas, residents of a hut in the tribal area took their sheep to a distant pasture. Young men from a nearby outpost came to the hut and demanded that it be demolished, claiming that it was empty.

Due to the closure of the usual grazing areas, the community brought a truck with hay. The community members unloaded the hay before the water crossing in an open public area, with the intention of collecting it with a pickup truck that could cross the crossing. Security personnel from Mitzpe Jericho stopped them, claiming that they were not allowed to unload anything in the area.

Young men from the nearby outpost entered the community area in a threatening manner. After they left, a water pipe was found cut.

A drone equipped with a powerful loudspeaker was flown over the community's barracks at night, playing recordings in Arabic, threatening the residents and calling on them to flee.

Two goats were stolen, and their Bedouin owner recognized them in the small herd of the nearby outpost.

An event was held near the community houses, "The End of the Great Holiday and Strengthening the Youth Farms of Mitzpe Jericho." The event included loud music, the directing of powerful projectors at the houses, and the entry of several "celebrants" into the Ta'el and Ka'abna communities.

A herd of goats from the farm was led through the community houses.

ATVs drove back and forth through the community's yards and barracks day and night, deliberately damaging the water pipes. Following a request from community residents to refrain from doing so, armed youths descended from the outpost and threatened its members. According to one witness, the threats included exposing a genital and urinating in the direction of the Bedouins.

A goat shed was set on fire.

On the nearby road, an armed patrolman resorted to violence against one of the young members of the community.

The men from the adjacent outpost entered the community area and the barracks, threatening the residents.

Seven solar panels intended for electricity generation were smashed in the middle of the night, the power cables were cut, and "revenge" graffiti was sprayed on the Bedouin huts.

Residents of the Jewish settlement called on the army to arrest one of the young community members on the grounds that he was throwing stones on the main road.

Residents of the nearby farm blinded the Bedouin windows with powerful flashlights. Young men stood over the community, cursing in threatening language.

Young men from the nearby outpost descended on the community, confronted the residents with violent language, and threatened to confiscate their herds. They claimed it was their territory.