SHOTLIST

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK, PALESTINE (NOV. 2, 2025) (ANADOLU-ACCESS ALL)

1. VARIOUS OF BEDOUIN COMMUNITY’S ATTACKED AND DAMAGED HOUSES AND FOLDS

2. VARIOUS OF ISRAELI SETTLEMENT NEAR BEDOUIN COMMUNITY’S HOUSES

3. VARIOUS OF BURNED FOLDS AND RUBBLE AS OWNER YOUSEF KA’ABNED WALK THROUGH RUBBLE

4. YOUSEF KA’ABNEH SHOWING BROKEN SOLAR PANELS AND SPEAKING

5. VARIOUS OF KA’ABNEH SPEAKING AND SHOWING BURNED STRUCTURES

6. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) YOUSEF KA’ABNEH, SAYING:

“What has happened to us is not something new from today or yesterday. We have been suffering for three years. The first settlement outposts were set up near the Bedouin communities we had on Street 11 in 2022, and we have been suffering not just today — we have been suffering for years.We endured pressure, and even more than that, they prevented us and restricted us in the grazing areas. You know that these communities depend on herding livestock and agriculture — this is the basis of their livelihood. They narrowed our grazing areas, restricted access to water wells, and strangled the community. In the end, nothing remained for us except displacement.”

7. WHITE FLASH

8. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) YOUSEF KA’ABNEH, SAYING:

“Everything — everything was destroyed economically and socially. When they choke you in terms of grazing, you no longer have an economy here. Socially, when there are outposts to the east, west, south, and north of you, you are surrounded. Now you cannot even ensure going out and letting your children play freely. You become isolated from the world. In the end — in the end, you reach what you are seeing now. The picture speaks for itself. I cannot tell you more than this. Houses were demolished, destroyed completely, down to the last one."

9. WHITE FLASH

10. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) YOUSEF KA’ABNEH, SAYING:

"Yes, we are here, and thank Allah, perhaps this is, let’s say, a mercy from Allah that we were able to get our children, our elderly, and our women out of the community. But what happened was a massacre in every sense of the word. We young men could barely get out. There was gunfire, burning, beating, smashing, large numbers… I can’t even describe it. It was like locusts swarming the area. They would see something belonging to people and destroy it — they smashed, burned, and beat.”

11. WHITE FLASH

12. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) YOUSEF KA’ABNEH, SAYING:

“There were even Jewish solidarity activists here with us — and even they were not spared. Even Jews were attacked while they were here. These are criminals. The people who live around the Bedouin communities are oppressed, and they must be looked at as humans. One person here suffered internal bleeding in the liver, broken limbs… What can I tell you? One cannot even speak. What is happening is not something humans do."

13. WHITE FLASH

14. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) YOUSEF KA’ABNEH, SAYING:

"Our ancestors were displaced from the Negev in 1948, and I myself have been displaced three times — and I’m not even that old. I have been displaced three times, and this last time involved burning. This time they don’t just want displacement — they want a final end, to take life away completely."

15. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DAOUD AL-JAHALIN, SAYING:

"The situation is miserable, and I don’t want to say hopeless. We are waiting for relief. In the area of Shaqaret al-Qolays, we are exposed to attacks from the occupation and its government through incursions, opening roads, and attempts to impose the ‘Iyoun’ plan on the land.”

16. WHITE FLASH

17. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DAOUD AL-JAHALIN, SAYING:

“Here today, in the Khillet al-Sidra community, five days ago we were subjected to a brutal attack by settlers, which led to the burning of nine homes, the displacement of families, and the theft of sheep. Just hours before that, there was another attack on the Ma’azez Jaba community, followed by more assaults. Settlers and their groups continue these attacks, whether against Bedouin communities or Palestinian farmers — olive pickers, or even in Palestinian villages.”

18. WHITE FLASH

19. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DAOUD AL-JAHALIN, SAYING:

“Hardly a day passes without witnessing fires here and there, assaults, and destruction. They show no mercy — even a seventy-year-old woman can be attacked by settlers, or an elderly man, a youth, or a child. This is the way of the occupation; this is their nature.”

20. WHITE FLASH

21. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DAOUD AL-JAHALIN, SAYING:

"Emptying the area and taking control of it for the benefit of settlement aims to impose a new reality — a new demographic situation on Palestinian land. The conflict with the settlers is a struggle for survival on this land."

22. WHITE FLASH

23. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DAOUD AL-JAHALIN, SAYING:

"More than 31 communities have begun to be evacuated in the areas east of Nablus and east of Ramallah. This campaign has been going on for 6–7 months across the Jerusalem governorate.”

24. WHITE FLASH

25. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DAOUD AL-JAHALIN, SAYING:

“The Khillet al-Sidra community is considered the first line of defense for the Bedouin communities around Jerusalem. If this community falls, all the communities behind it will fall as well. Therefore we call on everyone to take responsibility in defending this community, to keep it steadfast on its land, so that the 28 communities located behind it within the Jerusalem governorate can remain as well."

26. VARIOUS OF BURNED AND DAMAGED STRUCTURES BELONGING TO BEDOUIN FAMILIES
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK, PALESTINE - NOV. 2: A wave of violent attacks by Israeli settlers has left a trail of destruction in several Bedouin communities east of Ramallah, with residents reporting homes burned, livestock stolen, and a narrow escape from death, as they insist they will not abandon their land.

The "Khillet Sidra" community near Makhmas, a Palestinian village located northeast of Jerusalem, was attacked by a large group of masked Israelis on Saturday, Nov. 1, according to local sources.

The assailants, armed with pistols, rifles, sharp tools, and sticks, assaulted Palestinians and set fire to nine homes and various structures.
The attack turned the area into what one resident described as a "battlefield."

Local sources reported that settlers also destroyed the community's water networks and vandalized residents' belongings. During the attack, five Palestinian men and two Israeli solidarity activists were injured.

Recently, all Palestinian women and children relocated from Khillet As Sidra for safety reasons, and the men stayed to prevent seizure of their homes by settlers.

"This time they don’t just want displacement — they want a final end, to take life away completely," said Yousef Ka'abneh, 35, from the attacked community.

Ka'abneh recounted a harrowing escape for the community's residents. "We young men could barely get out. There was gunfire, burning, beating, smashing... It was like locusts swarming the area," he told Anadolu on Sunday, Nov. 2.

Ka'abneh, detailed years of systematic pressure that preceded the violent assault.

"The first settlement outposts were set up near our communities in 2022, and we have been suffering for years," he said. "They narrowed our grazing areas, restricted access to water wells, and strangled the community. In the end, nothing remained for us except displacement."

Ka'abneh described the profound impact of the settlers' campaign, saying “Everything was destroyed economically and socially. When they choke you in terms of grazing, you no longer have an economy here. You become isolated from the world."

For several months, the "Khillet Sidra" community has been subjected to repeated attacks by settlers, which residents and activists say aim to forcibly displace them.

Daoud al-Jahalin, an activist against settlement expansion, stated that attacks have intensified since the start of the war in Gaza. He warned that the situation is part of a broader campaign to empty the area of Palestinians.

"The conflict with the settlers is a struggle for survival on this land," al-Jahalin said. "The Khillet al-Sidra community is considered the first line of defense for the Bedouin communities around Jerusalem. If this community falls, all the communities behind it will fall as well."

He reported that more than 30 Bedouin communities in the West Bank have been forcibly displaced as a result of these escalating violations.

The attack on Khillet Sidra is not an isolated incident. In a similar attack on Oct. 25, a mob of masked Israeli settlers set fire to six Palestinian homes in the same community.

According to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, illegal Israeli settlers carried out 7,154 assaults on Palestinians and their properties in the occupied West Bank over the course of two years, which resulted in the death of 33 Palestinians and forced migration of 33 Bedouin communities.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says nearly 3,200 Palestinians from dozens of Bedouin and herding communities have been forcibly displaced by settler violence and movement restrictions since Oct. 7, 2023, mostly from Area C of the West Bank.

Writing by Sibel Uygun