Standing Together sets up solidarity encampment to stand with residents against ethnic cleansing
The movement’s Solidarity Guard is maintaining a permanent presence in Khan al-Ahmar, to support resistance to displacement.
Standing Together writes:
It’s not the first time this community has been threatened with expulsion, but it might be the most dangerous.
In the West Bank village of Khan al Ahmar, about 300 people are facing new threats from extremist minister Smotrich, who ordered Israel’s governing body in the West Bank to prepare to evacuate residents. It’s Smotrich’s latest push to entrench Jewish supremacy across the land, deepen the occupation, and destroy what remains of the possibility of an independent Palestinian state.
Why is he determined to take Khan al-Ahmar? The village is located along a central route connecting the north and south West Bank. Taking control of it would sever Palestinian territorial continuity and cut the West Bank in two. The area is known as E1, and villages here have long been threatened with expulsion. But this extremist, messianic government is taking concrete action because it thinks it can get away with it.
We cannot let that happen. We’ve been coming to the area of Khan al-Ahmar to provide protective presence for months, and now we’re in the village to stand in solidarity with the community’s struggle for their home. We set up a solidarity encampment in the village to be a base for protective presence and mobilizing and organizing against the ethnic cleansing. The next few weeks will be crucial for stopping the expulsion and we’re prepared to keep up the fight for as long as it takes.
When we spoke to residents they told us that they just want to live in their homes, on their own land that they’ve lived on for generations, without demolition orders and state-backed settler terror. They want their children to be able to go to school. Simply, they just want to live.
No one deserves to be expelled from their home and have their land confiscated. No one deserves to live in fear of being harassed and assaulted by settlers. Palestinians in Khan al-Ahmar deserve safety, freedom, and dignity. Nothing less.
Posted 5 June 2026