For the third night, the family of Yasser Abu Al-Kabbash will sleep in the open with 10 Palestinian families living in Khirbet Hamsa Al-Fawqa in the northern Palestinian valleys, on the borders of the West Bank with Jordan, after the occupation demolished the first part of their homes, Monday, and on Wednesday the demolition of the community, which includes about 70 homes and facilities , Fully.

Abu al-Kabbash and his family, consisting of 17 members, are awaiting the fate of the actual displacement after his grandparents from the Hebron region (the south of the West Bank) sought refuge in this area since 1955 following their displacement in the 1948 Palestinian catastrophe.

On Wednesday afternoon, the man was moving between the remains of bedding and structures destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces for his livestock pens, after the end of a 48-hour military notice to the residents to leave, as the occupation crews began to dismantle all housing and community facilities, and transfer them to the areas of Frouch Beit Dajan and Ein Shibli (south of the Jordan Valley) in the West Bank. .

Abu Kabbash told Al-Jazeera Net, "We have inhabited this land all our lives, and now they want to displace us to areas controlled by settlers and occupation forces as well."

Homs al-Fawqa, which is inhabited by about 80 Palestinians, was completely demolished at the beginning of last November, and at that time the occupation demolished 73 homes and facilities, all made of tin, as stone construction in the Jordan Valley was prohibited.

But the people rebuilt their homes, so the occupation demolished them again on Wednesday.

An Israeli soldier supervises the confiscation of housing structures for the people of Homs in the northern Palestinian valleys (Al-Jazeera)

The human rights activist in the Jordan Valley, Aref Daraghmeh, told Al-Jazeera Net that Khirbet Homs was evacuated 11 times to conduct military exercises during the last four years, and since then people have been subjected to confiscation of their agricultural tractors and pursuit of livestock keepers from them, and the occupation makes it difficult to transport water in tanks to their homes.

In 2017, the Homsa families received the first notices to stop construction and demolish their existing homes, and several homes were actually demolished, up to last November, when the ruins were completely demolished;

But its residents refused to leave their lands.

In the area whose people have not yet finished plowing their lands for the spring crops, the occupation forces imposed a comprehensive cordon on Wednesday, and prevented dozens of solidarity activists and journalists from arriving to document the demolition and deportation process, which the head of the Settlement Affairs Authority in the Palestinian Authority, Walid Assaf, describes as the largest displacement since the demolition and displacement Wadi al-Hummus (south of Jerusalem) in July 2019.

Assaf says that in recent years, the occupation authorities have separated many Palestinian communities on the outskirts of Jerusalem and the Palestinian valleys on the eastern and northeastern borders of the West Bank, including the communities of Abu Nawar, Jabal Al-Baba and Khan Al-Ahmar, and considered the displacement of Homsa as the first step in the actual implementation of the displacement of these communities and the implementation of the plan to annex the lands of the West Bank. West to the nearby Israeli settlements.

According to Assaf, Homsa al-Fawqa is the first village to be completely displaced since the occupation of the Palestinian Jordan Valley after the 1967 war. And if successful, “the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from the village that is located on the Baqi’a Plain will not stop there.”

Palestinian officials warn that the displacement of Hamsa will completely empty the Al-Buqiaa Valley of Palestinians (Al-Jazeera)

Emptying the most important plains of the bank

Humsa al-Fawqa is located in the heart of the Baqi’a Plain, which extends over 60,000 dunams of the most fertile agricultural lands of Palestine, and the triangle includes the villages of al-Malih and al-Farisiyya, then Ein al-Bayda (north), and returns (south) to the villages of Marj Na'ajah and Marj Ghazal and then to al-Jiftlik and Furush Beit Dajan, all of which are threatened with displacement Israeli.

Assaf said, "If Humsa al-Fawqa is evacuated, and the threat to evacuate the nearby Makhoul and Al-Hadidiya villages is implemented, the triangle, which has an area of ​​200,000 dunams, will be emptied of the entire Palestinian presence, including the Baqi’a Plain, the most important plains of Palestine in the West Bank.

The Baqi’a Plain is considered the most prominent source of Palestinian food baskets, especially wheat cultivation and livestock breeding, in addition to its strategic importance as it extends the lands of Palestine to the lands of the Jordan River.

That is, what is known as the borders of the Palestinian state with Jordan.

The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission rebuilds what the occupation forces destroyed in the Homsa al-Fawqa gathering in the northern Jordan Valley pic.twitter.com/rkNjzJIr0j

- Shehab News Agency (@ShehabAgency) February 3, 2021

Waiting for another uprooting

While the occupation plans to push the residents of Hamsa to migrate to the villages of Furush Beit Dajan and Ein Shibli (to the south), residents say that they are areas surrounded by settlers and are also threatened by Israeli deportation notices.

The settlement authority official said that the occupation would implement a temporary displacement process, awaiting their uprooting to other areas.

According to human rights sources, in just one month, the Israeli occupation delivered notices to demolish 150 residential and agricultural facilities in the Jordan Valley, while more than 10,000 forest trees were uprooted (east of Tubas) in the northern Jordan Valley.

Despite the international correspondence made by the Palestinian Authority in the last two days to stop the displacement of Hamsa al-Fawqa, as announced by Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh, Walid Assaf criticized what he described as international silence from the European Union, the Criminal Court, the United Nations and the Security Council, and said that this silence would have risks for the rest of The endangered communities of the Jordan Valley.

In the last four years, the Khirbet has turned into a scene of Israeli military exercises, which were forcing the people to leave their homes for days due to the use of live ammunition, in addition to the settlers' threats in the settlements of Ro'ih and Bak'out, which are built on their lands.

Israel seeks to evacuate the gathering, erase any Palestinian traces in it and hand it over to settlers, as well as use it for military, economic and agricultural purposes.

Homsa represents the reality of 27 villages and population agglomerations in the Jordan Valley, which constitutes a quarter of the West Bank. Israel seeks to liquidate the Palestinian presence in it, turn it into settlement and military areas, and annex it to its "state" within plans to annex 30% of the West Bank.