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Al Jazeera
Politics
Rania Zabaneh

In West Bank, settler violence forcing out Palestinian Bedouins

A Palestinian Bedouin sits near his tent near Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in June last year. [Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]

Jericho, occupied West Bank – Salman Khalayfeh lived in the village of al-Muarajat in the occupied West Bank’s Jericho with his family for more than 50 years. But near-daily harassment and violence by Israeli settlers forced the 62-year-old Bedouin farmer to move out of the area.

Last July, he decided to relocate to Taybeh on the outskirts of Ramallah – a hard choice for the father of 10 who had lived in al-Muarajat along with some 40 other Bedouin families.

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