Palestinian families brace for expulsion as settlers erect outpost near West Bank village

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Palestinian families brace for expulsion as settlers erect outpost near West Bank village Submitted by Tamara Davison on Wed, 11/11/2026 - 13:13 For people in Jiftlik, in the…

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.

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.

Many were born in al-Shuneh to families displaced by Israeli forces decades ago from other parts of Palestine.

But their livelihoods have been upended by a slow and ongoing torment: lingering Israeli demolition orders and, more recently, the subsequent arrival of hostile settlers.

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