years later and the palestinians are still there opposing the theft of their homes and land;

The village of Beita just south of Nablus has been confronting Israel’s attempts to establish a settlement on its lands on Mount Sabih since 2021, but since October 2023, Israeli attacks on the people of the village have risen dramatically. As settler encroachment onto village lands intensified over the past year, the Israeli government legalized the outpost of Evyatar in June. This marked an alarming reversal of an earlier decision to evacuate the outpost in 2021 — just two months into the popular protests that had been launched by Beita’s residents. 

Following the legalization of the Evyatar outpost, Israel also confiscated over 65 dunams of land surrounding it. This has led to a resurgence of civil resistance by Beita’s residents.

The killing of Turkish-American solidarity activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi in Beita on September 9 during these renewed protests brought the Palestinian village back into the spotlight four years after becoming a symbol of civil resistance in Palestine.

Eygi had gone to Beita for the first time in order to stand in solidarity with the people of the village. She was killed while standing beside Palestinians who performed the Friday prayer on their land threatened with confiscation, under the sight of Israeli soldiers. She was the 15th person killed by Israeli forces during the protests in Beita since its civil resistance began in May 2021..........more.......