For years, the Palestinian herders from the village of Ouja in the Jordan Valley were barred from reaching their grazing lands. They were terrorized by settlers from the illegal outpost Havat Omer that kept expanding, claiming more and more land as their own. 

- but no freedom of movement, of herding, of access to water if you are not Jewish in the occupied territories

At the end of 2016, yet another illegal outpost in the hills overlooking the Jordan Valley came into being, located in the Um Zuka nature reserve, not far from an army base and firing range. Nature reserves in the occupied territories, just as firing zones, are often a tactic to limit the movements of Palestinian herders, keeping them off their lands, while not preventing the establishment of Jewish settlements.