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How long will Khan al-Ahmar, an embattled Bedouin hamlet in the occupied West Bank, stand? The Israeli bulldozers have already been spotted, and Israel’s High Court has given its permission for the demolition. Despite this, the war over the fate of the village has reached an impasse.Israel has demolished thousands …

January 8th, 2019 Palestinian Bedouin students walk in the courtyard of their primary school in the village of Khan al-Ahmar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on September 6, 2018. Photo AFP How long will Khan al-Ahmar, an embattled Bedouin hamlet in the occupied West Bank, stand? The Israeli bulldozers have …

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces prevented Palestinians, including Palestinian Authority officials, from entering the Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin village of east of Jerusalem, on Saturday afternoon. Israeli forces obstructed a PA convoy while on its way to Khan al-Ahmar and briefly detained Minister Walid Assaf, Head of the Wall and Settlement …

The International Criminal Court has warned that Israel‘s planned demolition of a Palestinian Bedouin village in the West Bank could constitute a war crime, while Theresa May has said the action would be a “major blow” to the two-state solution peace plan.  Fatou Bensouda, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, said on Wednesday she was continuing …

A Christmas tree lighting ceremony was held in Khan al-Ahmar, a Bedouin village in the West Bank, that this year has been the focus of international outcry after an Israeli court ordered it be demolished. The planned demolition of the tiny hamlet, home to just 180 people, and its famed …

Bedouin people are a small, impoverished minority among Palestinians The residents of Khan al-Ahmar are living on borrowed time.On Monday, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Knesset members from his ruling Likud faction that the West Bank Bedouin encampment, home to 28 families, will be razed “very soon”.“I will not …

Bedouin people are a small, impoverished minority among Palestinians Mark Weiss in Khan al-Ahmar A woman bakes bread in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, east of Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, on October 21st, 2018 Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty The residents of Khan al-Ahmar are living on borrowed …

November 26, 2018 Sharing stories in the South Hebron Hills. On Our Land Project, Author provided (No reuse) Care about being a researcher for your community. You have to document your ancestors and their lives here in this village from before the occupation. You have the right and you must …

llustrative: Palestinians try to retrieve items from the rubble of a house after it was destroyed by IDF tractors near the West Bank village of Sussiya in 2011. (Najeh Hashlamoun/ Flash90) A Defense Ministry official told a Knesset committee Sunday that the government is ordering his office not to approve …

Defense Minister Lieberman won’t speak with Tawfiq Jabarin, who represents the Bedouin community facing demolition, because he is an employee of the Palestinian Authority Yotam Berger |  Oct 28, 201 Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, in the occupied West Bank October 22, 2018. Credit: MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/Reuters ●Cabinet OKs Netanyahu’s proposal to …