Jordan Valley

An Israeli military jeep drives through the West Bank village of Al-Mughayyir after an Israeli settler attack in the area, August 11, 2026. (Avishay Mohar/Activestills)

Life in a laboratory of Israeli ethnic cleansing

Al-Mughayyir faces an existential battle against settler-soldier violence and economic siege. But despite our many losses, we insist our village will remain.

By Haroon Bshara August 14, 2026

Hacham Salim in his greenhouse in the village of Jayyous, West Bank, April 7, 2026 (Timna Rose Peretz)

Israel’s war on the West Bank comes for Palestinian greenhouses

In Jayyous and neighboring villages, Palestinian farmers have been served dozens of new demolition orders intended to push them off their land.

By Meron Rapoport May 7, 2026

At the entrance of the tent where Israeli settlers gathered and beat residents and activists, in the herding community of Khirbet Humsa in the Jordan Valley, March 13, 2026. (Oren Ziv)

‘I thought we were going to be raped’: A night of settler terror in the Jordan Valley

Settlers tied up and beat Palestinians and activists in the herding community of Humsa while sexually assaulting one man, amid a wave of attacks in the area.

By Oren Ziv March 17, 2026

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Palestinians in the village of Qaryut mourn the killing of two residents who were shot dead by an Israeli settler, occupied West Bank, March 3, 2026. (Oren Ziv)

With West Bank under total Israeli closure, settlers are seizing the moment

Israeli settlers have killed two Palestinians and raided dozens of villages amid the war with Iran, as the army restricts movement and backs up the attackers.

By Oren Ziv and Basel Adra March 4, 2026

Shadmot Mehola Solar Field, in the Jordan Valley, occupied West Bank. (Sofia Fani Gutman)

With foreign backing, Israel’s solar energy boom is powering apartheid

Israel’s self-branding as a pioneer in sustainability obscures how its ‘green development’ is fueling the takeover of Palestinian land and resources — and international corporations are helping to bankroll it.

By Sofia Fani Gutman, Carolina Pedrazzi and Andrey X February 20, 2026

Tawfiq Bani Odeh, a resident of the Palestinian village of Atuf, with his flock of sheep on Mount Tammun in the northern Jordan Valley, January 23, 2026. (Oren Ziv)

Israel’s new separation wall will sever Jordan Valley from rest of West Bank

The army is issuing evacuation orders and seizing land to prepare a massive barrier — part of a wider project to annex the Palestinian ‘breadbasket.’

By Oren Ziv February 16, 2026

Palestinians pack their belongings into a truck in Ras Ein al-Auja, in the southern Jordan Valley, after Israeli settlers erected an outpost inside the village, January 8, 2026. (Oren Ziv)

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.

By Oren Ziv January 16, 2026

Israeli forces carry out demolitions in the Palestinian village of Khalet al-Daba, in Masafer Yatta, southern West Bank, May 5, 2025. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

In a West Bank ‘firing zone,’ Palestinians are erased as settlers lay down roots

While settlers' concrete mixers rumble under the Israeli army’s watch, Palestinian life in Masafer Yatta is being dismantled piece by piece.

By Basel Adra October 27, 2025

Bulldozers operated by Israeli settlers and soldiers uproot olive trees near the village of Al-Mughayyir, in the occupied West Bank, August 23, 2025. (Avishay Mohar/Activestills)

Israeli army, settlers unite in collective punishment of Al-Mughayyir

The siege of the West Bank village and destruction of its olive groves were a joint exercise in intimidation and re-engineering of Palestinian space.

By Oren Ziv and Shatha Yaish August 27, 2025

Settlers seen in their newly-established outpost inside the Palestinian village of Maghayer Al-Dir, in the West Bank, May 21, 2025. (Oren Ziv)

In a single week, a new settler outpost erases an entire Palestinian community

After building on their land, Israeli settlers attacked and drove out residents of Maghayer Al-Dir, one of the last villages in the southern Jordan Valley.

By Oren Ziv May 26, 2025

Community members in Khirbet Samra loading their flock into trucks before their departure on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Dikla Taylor-Sheinman)

Israeli settler violence is rapidly emptying Jordan Valley of Palestinians

Khirbet Samra is one of the last Palestinian shepherding communities in the West Bank’s eastern flank. State-backed settler militias are driving them out.

By Dikla Taylor-Sheinman and Georgia Gee March 19, 2025

The ruins of a building destroyed by settlers in the displaced Palestinian village of Khalet Khader, occupied West Bank. (Oren Ziv)

The West Bank villages wiped off the map by Israeli settler violence

Since October 7, over 50 rural Palestinian communities have been forced to abandon their homes amid intensifying attacks, threats, and harassment by Israeli settlers — almost always with the backing of the army and police.

By Oren Ziv December 4, 2024

A volunteer at a pepper harvest in Moshav Hamra, an Israeli settlement in the Jordan Valley, November 9, 2023. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)

Pick peppers, patrol for Palestinians: The ‘New Guardians’ of Israeli agriculture

With major government funding, Hashomer Hachadash sends volunteers to cement Jewish control of open farmland — on both sides of the Green Line.

By Georgia Gee September 16, 2024