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https://www.ochaopt.org/content/monthly-humanitarian-bulletin-february-2017 Posted on March 11, 2017  as part of  The Monthly Humanitarian Bulletin | February 2017 Since the beginning of 2017, a number of developments have generated additional pressure on Palestinian Bedouin communities located within and around the area designated by the Israeli authorities for the E1 settlement plan and …

The European Parliament’s Delegation for relations with Palestine urged the EU to act urgently and decisively to prevent the demolition of Khan Al-Ahmar, a Bedouin refugee community in Palestine’s West Bank. “The Delegation has visited Khan Al-Ahmar recently whilst on mission to Palestine and met the community there. 140 people, …

Statement Version Forced Relocation and Transfer of Indigenous Bedouin Populations- June 17th 2015: This statement is based on a letter the Israel-Palestine NGO Working Group at the United Nations sent to the Permanent Representative of every Member State mission to the United Nations in New York on Wednesday 17th June …

HIGH HOPES, a new short documentary directed/edited by Guy Davidi (of FIVE BROKEN CAMERAS’ fame) is in the running for the Audience Award (and Best Short Documentary) at the Erie International Film Festival. Voting, which costs $1.99, is open until December 21st, so please help to win the film that …

Middle East Monitor, Monday, 24 November 2014 10:35 After living under decades of Israeli occupation, Palestinian Bedouins now face an Israeli plan for their forced displacement to urban areas, which, they say, do not suit their nomadic lifestyle. Abu Raed, a 66-year-old leader of a Palestinian Bedouin community near Jerusalem, …

Mondoweiss, Annie Robbins on November 30, 2014 19 A peaceful protest by activists from Palestinian popular committees successfully blocked the Jerusalem – Jericho road Friday in their ongoing protest against Israeli policies to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian Bedouin communities from “Area C”. As Stop the Wall reported here last month, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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: …