The Palestinian herding community of Al Hadidiya (~ 70 residents) is located in Tubas governorate. Settler attacks have intensified in Al Hadidiya following the establishment of a settlement outpost within the community boundaries on 24 November 2025. Since then, residents have reported almost daily settler incursions into residential and grazing areas, harassment, and threats

Timeline of events:

24 November 2025: Settlement outpost established adjacent to Al-Hadidiya.

On 16 December, 2025, Israeli settlers from a newly established outpost raided damaged and cut electrical cables connected to a donor-funded solar panel system supplying electricity to two out of about nine households in the western section of the community.

On December 22, 2025, settlers broke into animal shelters, harassing residents and forcing families to remove livestock feed and water troughs, claiming they were too close to fencing erected around the settlement outpost. According to local sources, settlers chased livestock herds and drove quad bikes through grazing areas, causing the animals to scatter and putting them at risk. During the same incident, settlers attacked another animal shelter and stole at least seven water troughs used for animal drinking.

On January 10, 2026:

At 00:00, Settler youth from the nearby outpost which was established 45 days ago, invaded at midnight, threw stones, shouted, whistled, made a lot of noise, acted as drunks. They went from house to house and asked the residents "did you sleep well tonight?" then continued to the sheepfold. The residents called the police, who arrived with the army. The settlers told the police they were just working on the fence and pretended to be doing it (after 1:00 am). An older settler arrived to support them. But the residents of Al-Hadidiyah showed the army and the police the videos they had filmed earlier, and the police were convinced and told the settlers to return to the outpost and confiscated the weapon from one of them.

Incitement against Activist documenting the events:

On January 30, Press Release of Jordan Valley Activists نشطاء غور الأردن @JVActivists

Human rights activist falsely accused of poisoning settlers’ animals. Since the beginning of the week, a video and texts have been circulating on social media claiming that an activist from our group scattered poisoned dates in the area and caused the poisoning of sheep. At the same time, the activist was detained by the police, interrogated, and released with restrictions. None of this is true. The court lifted the restrictions after the police failed to present any evidence linking her to the poisoning, admitted that no dead cattle or sheep were found, and that the dates were not even tested. The plot is yet another act of intimidation and revenge against human rights activists who engage in protective presence with shepherd communities in the Jordan Valley. The video was filmed on Sunday as the activist walked along a dirt road that passes by the Palestinian community of al-Hadidiyah shepherds and residents of the illegal outpost "Abraham's shepherds" that was established about 200 meters from the community. They attacked her, claiming that the land "belongs" to them ("like all the land in the area"). Since the establishment of the violent outpost about two months ago, its residents have been working to expel the community of al-Hadidiyah by preventing grazing, harming the sheep, threatening and intimidating them, and erecting a barbed wire fence around the community, all with the support of the army and police, while the army carries out false arrests of Palestinians in coordination with the settlers. Following the above attack, a false and fabricated complaint was filed by Uriel Alkobi, head of the "Abraham's shepherds" outpost, and without any evidence, the police embarked on a campaign of harassment and intimidation in the Palestinian shepherd communities around the area under the pretext of searching for the activist (they had her name and phone number) and arrived at night in two vehicles to detain the "suspected" activist. Once again, we are shocked by the cooperation between the settlers, the police, and the army against the Palestinians and the activists. By the methods in which the police are disrupting our lives and causing us and our families to live in fear instead of carrying out their duties. By the misuse of resources, and by the fans, including media figures affiliated with the government, who are poisoning the networks with false information that provokes hateful and incitement reactions. It is worth noting here that the method of criminalising Palestinian residents initiated by settlers for poisoning sheep is well known to us. During November 2025, six Palestinian citizens were accused of poisoning sheep in an illegal outpost area in the Al-Mughayir area. And congratulations to the "Abraham's shepherds" outpost farm on the new shinny blue loader they received as a gift from the state this week!