In the small Bedouin village of Umm al-Khair, located in the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta region, residents marked weddings this week with caution and restraint due to ongoing settler violence and threats of demolitions by Israeli authorities. The celebrations were marred by daily harassment from Israeli settlers, arrests, and incursions by soldiers, as well as the looming threat of further displacement. On the first day of one wedding, Shimon Atiya, an Israeli settler under a restraining order for harassing Umm al-Khair families, brought his livestock to graze in a resident's vegetable garden, while soldiers stood by and refused to show new maps allegedly changing the village's land boundaries. The villagers believe this was a response to the indictment of another settler, Yinon Levi, for the killing of a community leader in Umm al-Khair just days earlier. This incident, along with settler arson attacks on nearby communities and the continuous erasure of Palestinian history, serves as a reminder of the ongoing Nakba and the threats to Indigenous Palestinians' way of life and their basic presence on their own land. According to local Palestinians and watchdog NGOs, the threats facing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip include detentions, killings, demolitions, restrictions on movement, and evictions. Since October 2023, Israel has killed over 1,100 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including 242 minors, and demolished more than 3,000 Palestinian homes due to a lack of Israeli-issued permits. The average daily displacement rate this year is double that of the previous three years, with 96% of those forcibly displaced previously dependent on farming or herding. This dispossession takes place within a system of Israeli permits, demolition orders, and land policies controlled by the state alongside hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding for settlements and outposts. Israel currently hosts 146 illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and 390 unauthorised outposts and farms. In 2024, the International Court of Justice found Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory to be unlawful. The residents of Umm al-Khair continue to face daily challenges in defending their homes and way of life against Israeli settlement expansion and violence.