The Ras El Auja Beduin encampment is being vacated. El Auja (the meandering) is an important wadi (creek) in Eastern Samaria, the dry side of the Samarian hills. It had been occupied by nomadic Bedouins, who were primarily based on sheep and goat herding. After two or three years of peaceful pressure (and discrete payments), they are vacating the land. The strategy was to outcompete the nomads by herding animals that pastured on the same miserable grass. Courageous boys on mules kept these herds till the nomads decided to pack and move to greener pastures.
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