On Thursday, 5 September 2024, eight families from the extended al-Mhanyah family, numbering a total of 50 people, including 28 minors, returned to the seven shacks and tents they left where they live most of the year, northwest of the village of al-Jiftlik, after spending the summer in the Tubas area as they do every year.
The families arrived at the site around 6:00 P.M., in a truck loaded with additional tents and equipment. Soon after, officials from the Jordan Valley settlement regional council arrived with a military escort and stopped the residents from unloading their cargo. The council officials and soldiers expelled the families from their place of residence and ordered one of the men to drive the truck to a nearby military base, where they confiscated it with its cargo. The families contacted the DCO. They received their truck and its cargo four days later, along with a warning that any vehicle arriving at the site where they lived would be confiscated.
The families have pitched their tents near the community of Khirbet ‘Alan, southwest of al-Jiftlik, about two kilometers south of their previous site.