UPDATE SUNDAY 5.3.17 FROM ADV. SHLOMO LECKER Today, this afternoon, the Civil Administration issued 42 demolition orders, upgrading the recently issued 42 stop work orders. So now the entire village, including the car tyres school, is under immediate threat of demolition, with all the political implications previously discussed.On Thursday, 2nd …
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IDF soldiers serve ‘cease construction’ notices to residents and school in Khan al-Ahmar, near Jerusalem By Times of Israel staff February 20, 2017, 12:19 pm The IDF served preliminary demolition orders to 40 structures including tents, huts and a school in a Bedouin encampment near Jerusalem on Sunday. The village …
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By William Booth February 6 JERUSALEM — Israel’s parliament passed a contentious law late Monday that allows the state to seize land privately owned by Palestinians in the West Bank and grant the properties to Jewish settlements for their exclusive use. The measure is designed to protect homes in Jewish settlements, built on …
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Sheren Khalel on January 31, 2017 A white tent is the only structure left standing among the scattered piles of twisted metal and tarp that was a Jahalin Tribe Bedouin encampment West of Jericho city in the Wadi Qilt valley. On the morning of Wednesday, January 25th, Israeli forces escorted two bulldozers …
Read More »By +972 Magazine | January 27, 2017 An increase in building permits for Palestinian structures in Area C of the West Bank is not what it seems. It is, in fact, part of the Israeli government’s process of concentrating Palestinians in order to make room for settlements to expand. By Alon …
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January 2, 2017 at 3:50 pm Israeli bulldozers Monday morning demolished 11 residential structures in the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar in the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem. Dawood Jahalin, secretary of the Fatah movement in Jerusalem’s Bedouin communities, told Ma’an that Israeli bulldozers escorted by Israeli forces demolished 11 …
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THE SECRETARY-GENERAL — REMARKS TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST New York, 26 January 2016 (as delivered) Sadly, 2016 has begun much like 2015 ended – with unacceptable levels of violence and a polarized public discourse across the spectrum in Israel and the occupied Palestinian …
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By Zafrir Rinat Originally published in Haaretz – January 7, 2016 [Photo by Amira Hass] Environmental defense organizations have invested enormous resources in recent years to promote solar power usage in Israel. They would do well to make a small effort to help the West Bank Bedouin community, which wanted to exploit this …
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By Amira Hass Originally published in Haaretz – December 27, 2015 [Photo by Amira Hass] Twenty-seven Bedouins living east of Jerusalem petitioned the High Court of Justice to let them live close to their parents, but not in the same tent. The state argued they should relocate to the Palestinian Authority. “If the petitioners …
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By Gideon Levy and Alex Levac Originally published in Haaretz – December 11, 2015 [Photo by Alex Levac] Dozens of pigeons, white and gray, now flock together on a small tin roof, pressed up against one another, as though protecting each other. They survived by flying off before the demolition, but their chicks were …
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