Archived – The Jahalin Bedouin Jahalin Solidarity
1. The Ariel bloc cuts a similar wedge between north and centre West Bank as the Maale Adumim Bloc does between south and centre, so E-1 Development Plan is about the deliberate atomization of Palestine. Cantonisation. Ghettoisation. Bantustans. Reservations. Apartheid. 2. The E-1 plan uses up the last remaining open …
Read More »Dispossession and displacement with no end in sight
Saturday, 18 October 2014 16:30 An estimated 90,000-100,000 Palestinian Bedouin lived in Palestine before the Nakba. In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s all but about 10,000 were driven from their lands by Zionist militias and – after the establishment of the State of Israel – the Israeli army. The …
Read More »Israel Planning Mass Expulsion of Bedouins from West Bank
Saturday, October 18, 2014 – 11:21 Inter Press Service RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 18 (IPS) – Thirty-year-old Naifa Youssef and 50 other members of her Bedouin community live a precarious life, eking out a hand-to-mouth existence alongside the main road which links Jerusalem with the Dead Sea and the ancient …
Read More »‘Do not plan our expulsion!': Activists protest Palestinian businesses involved in Bedouin relocation plan
By: Stop the Wall on October 14, 2014 The Israeli policies to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian Bedouin communities from the Jordan Valley and the area east of Jerusalem include the construction of three apartheid-style townships. Once expelled, these communities should be relocated there. However, in the last weeks Palestinian campaigners …
Read More »Address by Jameel Hamadin Jahalin to Andreas Reinecke, Christian Berger, Amb. Colin Scicluna, DPLC Committee, Belgian Foreign Min. et al. in Brussels
My name is Jameel Hamadin. I’m a youth activist defending the rights of the Bedouin in the West Bank. I graduated from Hebron University as an agricultural engineer. I live at the Sea Level encampment, next to Al Khan al Ahmar. I am also a Bedouin, and a refugee of …
Read More »West Bank Bedouin leaders reject relocation plan
This article was originally published in Haaretz – September 17, 2014[Photo by Reuters] By Amira Hass Representatives of Bedouin communities in the eastern West Bank convened two emergency meetings on Tuesday to discuss their stance against a Civil Administration decision to forcibly settle them north of Jericho. The meeting was …
Read More »Israeli government plans to forcibly relocate 12,500 Bedouin
This article originally appeared in Haaretz – September 16, 2014 [Photo by Reuters] By Amira Hass Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank is advancing a plan to expel thousands of Bedouin from lands east of Jerusalem and forcibly relocate them to a new town in the Jordan Valley… Article continued on Haaretz.com: …
Read More »Organizations call on Israel to stop forcible transfer plans
From the Civil Society Advocacy Working Group on Displacement September 11, 2014 – Forty-two Palestinian, Israeli, and international organizations are urgently calling on world leaders to stop Israeli plans to forcibly transfer thousands of Palestinian Bedouins out of their communities in the central part of the occupied West Bank and …
Read More »Nowhere to Call Home: The Plight of Israel’s Bedouin Communities
This article and accompanying photo essay originally appeared in the ABC News “Picture This” blog – May 1, 2012 [Photo by Giuliano Camarda/Redux] By By Lawrence Lai Italian photographer Giuliano Camarda visited the Arab al-Jahalin tribe of Palestinian Bedouins in October 2011 and discovered what he describes as a people …
Read More »Hamas Rockets Strike Israeli Bedouins [Video]
This story originally appeared in the New York Times – July 26, 2014 By Tamir Elterman Many Bedouins in the Negev desert have no protection from rockets fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza, because Israel does not recognize their villages and refuses to build them bomb shelters.
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