Israeli soldiers were sent to harass a Bedouin community that's halfway to expulsion

One side effect of the daily terror from the hilltop youth against Palestinian pastoralist communities is that the threshold of interest, shock and disgust keeps rising

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Israeli soldiers were sent to harass a Bedouin community that's halfway to expulsion

One side effect of the daily terror from the hilltop youth against Palestinian pastoralist communities is that the threshold of interest, shock and disgust keeps rising

Amira Hass

10:28 AM • June 24 2026 IDT

A masked soldier and an unmasked female soldier forcing their way into a Bedouin community's residential compound in the West Bank is not the kind of incident that makes the news. Not even when the soldiers had been fed the "hilltop youth" lie that sheep were stolen from a nearby settler outpost and they are looking for them. Not even when they break into the tin shacks "without even knocking on the door," as one person told me, as they did last Thursday evening in a small community of the Kaabneh tribe in Ma'aleh Wadi Qelt.

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