A hen scampers alone amid the remains of a Bedouin community dismantled a few hours earlier near the town of Hamra, in the northern Jordan Valley (occupied West Bank). It must have gotten lost when the inhabitants were expelled by a group of Jewish settlers, who have been increasing their attacks on Palestinian shepherd communities recently. “Uri Cohen pointed a gun at me a week ago. No one is protecting us. We can only stay put to save our lives,” says Hasan (he prefers not to give his real name), a 51-year-old shepherd from the area, referring to one of the Israelis leading the offensive, who continues to intimidate his family into abandoning their precarious home, their land, and their way of life. Hasan, for the moment, is resisting and enduring. Uri Cohen, for his part, declines to answer this newspaper’s questions.
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