Khirbet Makhoul (خربة مكحول) is in Tubas Governorate, in the northern Jordan Valley, approximately 14 km east-southeast of Tubas town in a straight line.

Outpost and settlements surrounding Makhoul.

• Ro'i (רועי), Settlement, established in 1976

• Hemdat (חמדת) Settlement, established in 1979

• Suweida outpost (منطقة السويدة), Shepherd outpost, A settler established an outpost in the nearby Suweida area, according to a Makhoul resident interviewed by Amnesty.

• Gil'ad Farm (חוות גלעד), Shepherd farm/outpost, A resident of this outpost reportedly brings large cattle herds onto Palestinian agricultural land around Makhoul.

• Goshen-Hemdat Farm, חוות גושן, Outpost, Identified in B'Tselem's 2021 mapping of new outposts. Also called Goshen Farm Chemdat by Peace Now.

• Uri Cohen Um Zuqa Farm, Outpost, Name used in B'Tselem's 2021 outpost map; Peace Now subsequently lists Um Zuka, established in 2016.

Amnesty estimates that Ro'i and Hemdat together house approximately 550 settlers.

Amnesty also identifies two military bases:

• Bke'ot (בקעות).

• Peles (פלס).

Timeline of the ethnic cleansing

Khirbet Makhoul was demolished by Israeli forces on 16 September 2013, leaving approximately 60 Palestinian residents homeless. Al-Haq documented the demolition.

On February 13, 2026, in the northeastern West Bank, colonizers assaulted Palestinian shepherds in Khirbet Makhoul in the northern Jordan Valley.

Mahdi Daraghma, head of the al‑Maleh Village Council, said colonizers attacked residents near their tents in Khallet Makhoul.

Israeli forces also abducted Yusef Bisharat, his wife, and their son near their tents, Kamal Bani Odal, according to the head of the Tubas office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society