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Subject With IDF Soldiers and Settlers Expelling Palestinians, the West Bank Is Seeing a Creeping Nakba
Date August 15, 2025 12:00 AM
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WITH IDF SOLDIERS AND SETTLERS EXPELLING PALESTINIANS, THE WEST BANK
IS SEEING A CREEPING NAKBA  
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Haaretz Editorial
August 13, 2025
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_ There's no way, and there won't be one, to justify or defend what
Israel is doing in the West Bank. Under the cover of the war, with the
full backing of the IDF.-.They are driving out Palestinian residents
and seizing more and more of their land. _

Palestinians look at Israeli soldiers in the Israeli settlement of
Karmel, during the Thursday funeral of Palestinian activist Awdah
Hathaleen, killed by an Israeli settler., Credit: Mosab Shawer/Agence
France-Presse (AFP) // Haaretz

 

There's no way, and there won't be one, to justify or defend what
Israel is doing in the West Bank. Under the cover of the war in Gaza
and with the full backing of the IDF, Israel's settlement enterprise,
from government officials to the youngest member of the radical, often
violent "hilltop youth," has been given free rein. They are driving
out Palestinian residents and seizing more and more of their land.

As reported by Haaretz on Tuesday, yet another Palestinian shepherding
community of about 100 near Ramallah was forcibly expelled
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their village after settlers threatened the residents and demanded
they leave. The residents of Ein Ayub are the latest victims of West
Bank settlers, who have seized the Gaza war as an opportunity to carry
out their own mass displacement – a creeping Nakba.

 
A raid at the Balata refugee camp east of Nablus city in the West
Bank on Monday.  (Phot credit: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/Agence France-Presse
(AFP)  //  Haaretz)
In July, residents of the Bedouin village of Mu'arrajat, near Jericho
in the West Bank, were expelled following a familiar pattern of
settler outpost construction, harassment and displacement after the
establishment of an outpost there.

Also in July, residents of the Palestinian village of Deir Alla in the
southern West Bank fled after settlers set fire to buildings in their
village. A few days earlier, settlers had arrived and established an
illegal outpost in one of the village's structures. The villagers
reported the outpost's construction to the IDF, but it was not
evacuated.

In May, residents of the Bedouin village of Mughayyir al-Deir were
forced to flee less than a week after a settler outpost was erected
adjacent to their village.

The expulsion from Ein Ayub wasn't an isolated incident, but part of a
routine pattern of settler terror enabled by the state. It began in
early July with preparations to establish a settler outpost-farm
nearby and escalated into a systematic campaign of intimidation aimed
at forcing Palestinians from their villages.

This is the reality in the West Bank under Israeli occupation: When a
Palestinian village vanishes, a settler outpost takes its place.

Abdullah Jahalin, an Ein Ayub resident, told Haaretz of a familiar
pattern of violent displacement: Settlers broke into the village and
gave the residents 24 hours to leave. Anyone who dared to ask why was
beaten. Then masked men in IDF uniforms
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issuing a one-week ultimatum, and on the same day, settlers torched a
community building.

According to Jahalin, a drone also flew over the village, urging the
residents to leave. In a video recorded by an activist, the drone can
be heard sounding the message, "Keep whining, maybe Mohammed will help
you."

When the residents had already begun packing, soldiers arrived with a
military closed-area order demanding immediate evacuation. The IDF was
quick to call it a so-called misunderstanding and misidentification,
but on the ground, as Jahalin said, soldiers and settlers pointed guns
at his head and ordered him to leave. Only late at night did an
officer tell them they could stay. By then, many residents had already
left.

"The army is playing a game," he said. "They come once it's all over
and pretend nothing happened, after watching the village empty out."

A resident of Mughayyir al-Deir, a village that was completely
displaced, was asked in an interview with Haaretz's Hebrew
edition why he left.
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replied, "The settlers come, they beat us, they shoot. That's it, they
won." Terrifyingly, in the absence of any real opposition or
resistance to the occupation, he seems to be right.

_The above article is Haaretz's lead editorial, as published in the
Hebrew and English newspapers in Israel._

* West Bank
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* Nakba
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* Palestine
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* Palestinians
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* Israel
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* Israel-Gaza War
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* Genocide
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* war crimes
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* settlers
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* Israeli settlers
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* West bank settlers
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* Settler violence
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* Occupied Territories
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* Israeli Occupation
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* IDF
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