By Zeena Saifi, Jeremy Diamond and Cyril Theophilos, CNN
Photo: John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images via CNN Newsource
Suleiman Ghawanmeh is tired of talking. For over 10 years, he talked himself hoarse until he realised his words could not save his community from being driven out. After his final appeal for help came to nothing, he, too, left.
"I am angry with the world... nobody listens to us... it's as if we are not human beings," he told CNN.
His village of Ras Ein al-Auja in the occupied West Bank has now been erased - emptied of its Palestinian residents after a years-long campaign of relentless settler harassment that has intensified over the past two years.
The ongoing violence against what was once the largest shepherding community in the West Bank increased markedly this month, forcing families to abandon their homes, according to I
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