Many citizens who live near two settlements located east of Bethlehem, especially the villages of Kisan, Al-Rashaida, Jub Al-Dhib and Beit Tamar, confirmed that many herds of settlers have spontaneously formed organized militias affiliated with the fascist extremist Itamar Ben Gvir, the so-called Minister of National Security.

What is meant by these two settlements is the "Abi Nahal" settlement established on the lands of the village of Kisan, which is only one kilometer away from the citizens' homes in the village, and was established in 1999. It was established in the year 1980, and both of them are not far from each other, and the residents maintain close relations in them and coordinate their attacks on citizens and their property, and the number of settlers in the two settlements is estimated at about a thousand settlers.

Armed militias
According to many activists, the settlers in these two settlements have launched intense attacks against the residents for many years, but in the last year, and specifically in the months that followed the formation of the fascist government of Benjamin Netanyahu in a coalition with the parties of Sumrich and Ben Gvir, these groups became an organization that took the form of armed militia. This was evident in their carrying arms and daring to attack citizens’ homes inside the village, breaking into some of them and destroying their property, as well as launching serious attacks and assaults on farmers and pedestrians in their pastures, to force them to leave them. It was noted that, during their attacks, they were carrying pictures of Ben Gvir, and some of them even wore T-shirts bearing his picture and written under it in Hebrew, "Al-Jifer", which means hero.

Citizens injuries
Musa Obayat, Mayor of Kisan, explained that members of these militias assaulted a number of foreign farmers and solidarity activists several months ago, stabbed one of the solidarity activists with a sharp object, and broke her leg after hitting her with sticks in full view of the occupation soldiers. Wadi al-Ghar area of the village of Kisan, and they threw stones at them and attacked the farmer, Mustafa Abayat, who suffered bruises all over his body. On the first of last March, they assaulted the farmer, Muslim Ibrahim, who is "30 years old." On the twenty-ninth of the same month, they attacked the homes of citizens and sheep herders in Kisan wilderness, and injured Ali Yusef Obayat (70 years old) and his son Jihad, and they were taken to the hospital for treatment.

Continuous attacks
The citizens' vehicles were not spared from the assault and the throwing of stones, nor were their trees spared, as the settlers burn some of them with insecticides and uproot others. They are suppressed and arrested, especially when settlers file malicious complaints against citizens.

Challenge School 5, located in the village of Jub al-Dhib, was not spared from the attacks of these settlers, whether by attacking students or organizing sit-ins in front of it to demand its demolition. Many activists assert that one of the reasons for the occupation forces to announce the demolition of the school is only in response to these settlers and with the encouragement of Ben Ghfir, who is visiting The two settlements from time to time, and he meets his supporters who in some neighborhoods write provocative slogans on the walls of some houses, including in Hebrew "Ben Gvir passed from here" and "Ben Gvir the next prime minister."

practices are not accidental
In this regard, Hasan Brijieh, director of the Wall and Settlement Authority in Bethlehem Governorate, says, "The escalation of attacks by Ansar al-Fashi Ben Gvir was not by chance. Bethlehem is only planned at a high level and it is not long ago that Ben Gvir participates in that, especially since he visits the two settlements constantly. The aim is to seize the pastures of these vast villages, whose lands extend to the shores of the Dead Sea. The cave in the Kisan wilderness, and its annexation of these two settlements.

Brijieh stressed that we cannot remain silent about this reality, warning at the same time that they will commit actual massacres against the citizens, as the indicator is clear and without any ambiguity.