Illegal Israeli settlers have intensified attacks on a Palestinian Bedouin community east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in an apparent effort to forcibly displace its residents, a rights group said.
The Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights said settlers, under the protection of the Israeli army, attacked the Arab al Kaabneh community east of the village of Taybeh on Friday, days after carrying out a similar assault.
According to the organisation, the settlers stormed the community, drove their sheep through Palestinian homes and assaulted members of the Naif Kaabneh family.
"The repeated attacks fall within Israel's maximum-pressure policy against Bedouin communities, aimed at forcibly displacing them," Al-Baidar said in a statement.
Displacement campaign
According to the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, illegal Israeli settlers carried out 3,488 attacks across the occupied West Bank during the first half of 2026.
The commission said the attacks killed 17 Palestinians and led to the full or partial displacement of 26 Bedouin and pastoral communities.
It also reported the establishment of 42 new illegal settlement outposts, most of them pastoral.
Since the start of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, Israeli forces and illegal settlers have intensified attacks across the occupied West Bank.
According to official Palestinian figures, the violence has killed more than 1,182 Palestinians, injured around 13,000 others and led to the arrest of nearly 25,000 people, while causing widespread damage to homes and property.
