Ras Ein al-Auja, occupied West Bank - In the blistering summer heat, Farhan Ghawanmeh, 33, is struggling to keep his Bedouin community alive.

Deprived of reliable electricity, water and access to the land that its members rely on for their livelihood in the eastern West Bank, the community is on the brink of collapse.

The community once owned about 24,000 head of livestock as part of its herding way of life. Now, it is left with about 3,000.

Pens once containing hundreds of sheep and goats are empty after a series of killings and thefts of livestock and rounds of sell-offs by herders desperate for infusions of cash.

The newest Israeli settler outpost was built in August just 100 metres (110 yards) from the nearest Palestinian family. The outposts in the area now hem in the village’s a

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