On Saturday, 14 February 2026, ten families, numbering 45 people including 24 children, took down their homes in the community of ‘Ein al-Meyteh, in the Hamamat al-Maleh area of the northern Jordan Valley, packed their belongings and moved to land they rented north of the village of Tayasir, in an area defined in the Oslo Accords as Area A, hoping to be able to live in safety there.
The departure came after, on Sunday, 8 February 2026, the Civil Administration demolished three residential tents and a residential shack housing four families, numbering 16 people, including eight children, leaving them homeless, and settlers attacked the community in the days following the demolitions.
On Monday morning, 9 February 2026, six to seven settlers, at least one of them armed with a club, raided a residential compound that the Civil Administration demolished the previous day, as well as the flock of sheep, which was out grazing. Four settlers forced their way into the tent the family had set up after their home was demolished to provide shelter for the children, kicked out the children and sat inside on the family’s chairs. The settlers drove the flock away from the pastureland, wandered around the area, provoked residents, stole objects, opened the water tank tap and let the precious water run. Soldiers who arrived at the scene did nothing. One family left in the early afternoon that same day.
On Thursday, 12 February 2026, at around 11:00 P.M., several settlers again invaded the community, threatened residents and beat a resident who was on his way to his neighbor’s home with clubs. The settlers then set fire to an empty livestock enclosure, tried to set fire to a family’s home, damaged an internet cable, stole a security camera and pulled out and broke an air conditioner.
Eight families had already left the community in November 2025 following settler and military violence, and in all, 18 families, numbering 100 people including 55 children, have been forcibly transferred from their homes there.