UN Reports Nearly 100 Palestinian Families Displaced in 2 Weeks Amid West Bank Settler Violence
A member of the Bedouin community of the Al Kharabsha family from Shallal Al-Auja, north of Jericho, 23 January 2026. According to Nayef Salamh Al Kharabsha, member of the Bedouin community, only 17 families were left from the community, and 120 other families had been forcibly displaced, and settlers took over 1200 of his family’s livestock. Photo: EFE.
January 24, 2026 Hour: 1:57 am
Nearly 100 Palestinian families forcibly displaced in the West Bank over the past 2 weeks amid zionism escalating attacks.
Nearly one hundred Palestinian families have been displaced in the West Bank over the past two weeks due to attacks by Israeli settlers, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Most of those affected are Bedouin from Ras Ein al-Auja in the Jericho Governorate. The report notes that five other West Bank communities were forcibly displaced during the same period.
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The agency details that a total of 77 Palestinian families, comprising 375 people -including 186 minors and 91 women- began dismantling their homes and seeking relocation in response to the increase in nightly assaults, threats, and abuses by settlers in the Ras Ein al-Auja area.
Earlier, on January 8, 21 families made up of 110 people had been forcibly evicted. In that incident, Zionist attacks reportedly included physically assaulting an elderly man, sabotaging solar power cables, and illegally plowing private land.
In a separate incident on Friday, Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian farmer south of the city of Nablus after opening fire on him while he was working on his agricultural land.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, Israeli forces prevented ambulance teams from accessing the location at the time of the attack and transported the wounded man to an unknown destination.
Last week, Israeli forces detained twelve Palestinian citizens during a raid in the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem.
Author: Victor Miranda - LVM
Source: Al-Mayadeen / QNN / OCHA
