This report and associated video footage was originally filed by AP Television – September 15, 2015 Video Link: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/MEEX-West-Bank-Bedouin/820de64f26b2d47f4a70e3cb897387bf *English translation of Arabic footage available in the audio transcript. Bedouin children have a kick about in Abu Nuwar. But these football games may soon be a thing of the past. Israel’s Civil Administration …
Read More »[Mondoweiss] Caught between Jerusalem and expanding settlements, uncertainty hangs over residents of Abu Nuwwar
This article was originally published at Mondoweiss – August 28, 2015 [Photo by Lydia Noon] By Lydia Noon The leafy city of Ma’ale Adumim lies 7 kilometres east of Jerusalem and is Israel’s newest tourist attraction. Palm trees lining the sidewalk offer respite on a hot August afternoon, buses driving the well-maintained roads serve …
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 »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 »Bedouins around Ma’ale Adumim: the Khan al-Ahmar Community and School
The following is an excerpt from a B’Tselem article on Area C, entitled, “The Bedouins around Ma’ale Adumim,” originally posted November 2013 and updated May 18, 2014. [Photo: Khan al-Ahmar School, Sept. 2011. By Anne Paq] In early 2012 the State advised that the Civil Administration had conducted a risk …
Read More »Bedouins in strategic West Bank area fear eviction
This article originally appeared in SF Gate – May 8, 2014 [Photo by Majdi Mohammed, AP] By Karin Laub West Bank (AP) — Over the course of just three weeks, Israeli forces destroyed Suleiman Qaed’s small cinderblock house and the trailer home an aid group sent him as a replacement. …
Read More »Compensation calls as Israel seizes EU-funded aid projects
Originally published by EurActiv – April 11, 2014 Israel has seized three EU-funded humanitarian aid projects on the edge of a settlement construction zone that Europe views as as a ‘red line’, spurring demands for compensation payments to Brussels at a crisis moment for John Kerry’s Mideast peace bid. The three …
Read More »Israel 'demolishes' EU-funded West Bank housing shelters
Photo by Rami Allaria Originally published by Ynet News (with reporting from AFP) – Saturday, April 12, 2014 Israel has demolished several European Union-funded humanitarian housing shelters in a highly sensitive strip of West Bank land near Jerusalem, which led European diplomats to demand financial compensation. “On April 9, three of …
Read More »Watch: Edward Said's Return Home – BBC film
WATCH this BBC film with Edward Said returning to Jerusalem. At 23:00 he visits the Jahalin displaced in 1998 as the bulldozers are there, at Maale Adumim. Amazing documentary. One cannot imagine it being allowed to be made or released today. Amazing.
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