The calculated erasure of Ras Ein Al-Auja: Israeli state-backed settler violence is displacing the southern Jordan Valley’s last herding community, advancing efforts to empty Area C of Palestinians.

The calculated erasure of Ras Ein Al-Auja: Israeli state-backed settler violence is displacing the southern Jordan Valley’s last herding community, advancing efforts to empty Area C of Palestinians. (+972 Magazine, 2026-01-16)

https://www.972mag.com/ras-ein-al-auja-erasure-jordan-valley/———

For years, the Palestinian community of Ras Ein Al-Auja in the southern Jordan Valley has held firm the face of Israeli settler violence. But after settlers set up an outpost in the center of their village at the end of December, plowing private land, destroying a main road, and cutting electricity cables, many families decided they had no choice but to leave.

Twenty-six households … — more than 100 people in total — fled their village that day [Jan. 8] ... Activists maintaining a round-the-clock presence had managed to provide some measure of safety, but … it was only a matter of time until residents began to flee.

Ras Ein Al-Auja’s story, however, isn’t unique...

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