June 20, 2025
As expected, amid the war with #Iran, settler violence and criminal activity are escalating. Northeast of #Ramallah, #settlers are accelerating their land grabs through the establishment of new outposts, roadblocks, arson attacks on fields, and the uprooting of trees - all under the protection of the army and in line with official government policy. Land is being looted in broad daylight, while the state turns a blind eye.
After settlers, with the help of the army, succeeded in expelling most of the Palestinian shepherd communities and clusters from the east and northeast of Ramallah, in the last few days they have accelerated the seizure of agricultural land belonging to the residents of the villages of Al Mughair and Duma all while attention is focused on the events with Iran.Over the past two weeks, two new outposts have been established at the entrances to the villages of Al Mughair and Duma. In Al Mughair, the outpost was set up along the eastern access road, which the army blocked immediately after the outbreak of the war. In Duma, the new outpost now controls the village's only remaining access road, after the settlers and the army blocked the other two. Back in July 2023, we published a post about a checkpoint that was placed east of the village of Al Mughair, warning that its purpose was to prevent landowners from accessing their lands that are located east of the village - paving the way for settlers to seize them. Unfortunately, we were right. Link to the post from July 2023 is in the comments.
As far as we understand, these two new outposts are essentially extensions of the main outpost established in the area about a decade ago inside an abandoned military base, known as "Malachei Hashalom". This outpost is one out of ten outposts that the racist and corrupt Israeli government decided to "legalize" on February 12, 2023. Link to the government decision in the comments.
The outpost of Malachei Hashalom serves as an eastern extension of the settlement of Shiloh and its violent outposts. Through a network of outposts that were established since the late 1990s, settlers have succeeded in taking control over nearly the entire area between Shiloh and the Jordan Valley. Now, they are working to consolidate their grip towards the north and the south along the Alon Road, while the army, under the authority of the Apartheid Central Command Major General Avi Blot, allows them to run wild.About a week ago, it was reported that the army had declared 800 dunams in the area surrounding the outpost of Malachei Hashalom as "state land". However, we have yet to see the official declaration and the accompanying map, nor have we found any signage on the ground, which is the usual procedure in such cases. What we did receive, however, is an unusual document in Arabic, unlike anything we have seen before. Signed over two months ago on April 9, 2025, the document announces an intention to hold a “hearing" prior to either declaring roughly 825 dunams of land or registering it in the land registry as "state land" . The attached map shows that the targeted area is surrounding the outpost of Malachei Hashalom. Link to the document is in the comments.
Meanwhile, settlers in the area are taking over agricultural land along the Alon Road. The goal is to establish a chain of outposts and agricultural land seizures stretching between the outpost of Malachei Hashalom and the isolated and notoriously violent settlement of Kochav Hashahar. East of the village of Al Mughair, you can witness large swaths of farmland that have been set ablaze by settlers in order to block Palestinians from accessing their land. In recent days, an olive grove with dozens of trees northeast of the village of Al Mughair was uprooted. Along the Alon Road, several spots already show signs of settlers plowing, clearing, and cultivating the land.
This is what looting in broad daylight looks like under the racist and corrupt government and the most powerful army in the Middle East.
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