The community of al-Shuneh in Jiftlik relies heavily on livestock and farming, but daily life has grown perilous due to persistent harassment from nearby armed occupants. Aggression peaked when masked intruders surrounded local homes to deliver eviction warnings, while school children have encountered direct threats along their daily commute. Several families living in the village had already relocated there after prior destructions of their residences by settlers. The situation reflects an intensifying territory-wide expansion of unauthorized settlements that violate both international and Israeli domestic laws.
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Around 80 agrarian families in the West Bank face an imminent threat of displacement from…: Around 80 agrarian families in the West Bank face an imminent threat of displacement from their agricultural lands.
Local children are being directly subjected to hostile and threatening encounters while w…: Local children are being directly subjected to hostile and threatening encounters while walking the two kilometers from school.
The al-Shuneh outpost represents a wider, illegal push by settlers to entrench control th…: The al-Shuneh outpost represents a wider, illegal push by settlers to entrench control through unauthorized construction across the West Bank.
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Mohammed* sips coffee outside his small concrete home in the al-Shuneh cluster, framed by the sprawling Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank.
But the energy abruptly shifts when a pickup truck kicks up dust and hurtles down the hillside: it’s Israeli settlers.
He quickly ushers his guests toward the door, watching anxiously until the car passes into the distance.
“The attacks are escalating,” the Palestinian man says, his young children cautiously peering out of the doorway of his family home.
“There's this feeling of insecurity, living in this constant limbo.”
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Around 80 Palestinian families rely on the remote rocky hillside on the eastern slopes of the West Bank, overlooking the Jordan River.
Al-Shuneh is one of the four population clusters in the agricultural village of Jiftlik, north of the city of Jericho.
The village's population consists of farmers and nomads who rely on livestock raising for their livelihoods.
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