Relentless harassment by Israeli settlers had already driven Ahmed Kaabnehβs brothers out of their Bedouin community in the central occupied West Bank.
Still, Kaabneh clung to the land his family had tended for generations, refusing to abandon the only home he had ever known.
That resolve shattered when a group of young settlers erected a shack barely 100 meters above his house and began intimidating his children.
At 45, Kaabneh said he finally understood he had no real choice β he, too, had to flee.
Now the small patchwork of wood and metal homes where his father and grandfather once lived stands deserted, echoing the fate of dozens of Bedouin communities across the West Bank.
βIt is very difficult ...
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