From Al Jazeera · Fayha Shalash · · 50s
Night watch in the West Bank
Palestinians in occupied villages organize armed night patrols to defend homes from Israeli settler attacks.
In brief
Palestinians in occupied villages organize armed night patrols to defend homes from Israeli settler attacks. Palestinians in al-Mughayyir and Sinjil have begun night guard shifts to protect their homes from intensifying Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank. Originally reported by Al Jazeera.
Home under siege
Abdul Rahman Jabr, thirty-two, built his home in al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah, in early two thousand twenty-three before his marriage. Israeli settlers attacked it more than a year ago.
Barbed wire and family
After the attack, Jabr installed barbed wire to fend off future settler pogroms. He now lives there with his wife and their two-year-old daughter as attacks intensify.
Organized defense
Palestinians in Sinjil have taken up guard shifts at night to protect the occupied West Bank town from settler attacks. The village sits in an area with a long history of settler violence.
What it means
Palestinians in al-Mughayyir and Sinjil have begun night guard shifts to protect their homes from intensifying Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank.