{"id":1808,"date":"2012-04-16T12:06:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T09:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jahalin.org\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2012-04-16T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T09:06:03","slug":"article-by-electronic-intifada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"Article by Electronic Intifada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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November 2009<\/h4>\n

Jahalin Bedouin suffer without representation<\/span><\/h2>\n

“Beyond the demolitions in its suburbs and the frequent, violent clashes around the al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem is the scene of a quieter shame. Southeast of the holy city live the Jahalin Bedouin, a community that has been repeatedly displaced and transferred, now enduring unimaginable poverty beside Jerusalem\u2019s largest garbage dump. An embarrassment to Palestinians and Israelis alike, the Bedouin and their unique way of life are under grave\u00a0threat.<\/p>\n

Eid Raeb is a coordinator between the Jabal camp and the European nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that are its lifeblood. \u201cBedouin life is finished,\u201d he declared without hesitation. \u201cSometimes when I look outside I imagine how it was before, but I know that life is over.\u201d Eid is one of the founding members of the camp after they were displaced from their land that became Ma\u2019ale Adumim, one of the fastest growing Israeli settlements. \u201cAfter they built [Ma\u2019ale Adumim] in 1979, they began to move us. At first very slowly, one family at a time. After 1993 and the Oslo agreements they built many houses and said they needed all the land.\u201d The Oslo agreements placed them in Area C, under Israeli control. \u201cAt first when they told us to move here we refused, but the Israelis said they would use force. They promised us building permission, electricity, water and streets. When we came here there was nothing, just open\u00a0land.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Jabal camp was established in 1997, with each Bedouin family receiving around $10,000 compensation from the Israeli government. But the promises of infrastructural support were reneged on; most crucially the Bedouin were denied permission to build, forcing them to live for six years in shipping containers. In 1998, the\u00a0UN\u00a0Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights expressed \u201cdeep concern at the situation of the Jahalin Bedouin families who were forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands to make way for the expansion of the Ma\u2019ale Adumim settlement.\u201d The report also condemned the \u201cmanner in which the Government of Israel has housed these families \u2014 in steel container vans in a garbage dump in Abu Dis in subhuman living conditions.\u201d After concerted pressure from aid organizations and foreign NGOs the residents of Jabal were finally granted permission to build on their\u00a0land.<\/p>\n

Eid claims that the site was uninhabited when the Bedouin were moved in, that it was Israeli land to give away and that \u201cPalestinians have no problem with us being here.\u201d This is not the case according to Dr. Abdullah Abu Helal, a long-time resident of Abu Dis, the neighboring Palestinian village. \u201cTheir village is built on land confiscated from Palestinians in Abu Dis. We think very badly of them, that they work with Israelis and sometimes they behave like Israeli soldiers. We had a demonstration against the stealing of our land and they came to shoot at us. That they have their own problems and difficulties does not mean they should accept to live on Palestinian land.\u201d Abu Helal referred to a neighboring Bedouin camp where he claims the residents refused to displace Palestinians and now live in temporary tents away from Abu Dis town, explaining that \u201cthey trade milk and cheese with us, we provide them with teachers. They are with us in our struggle against the\u00a0Israelis.\u201d<\/p>\n[…]\n

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November 2009 Jahalin Bedouin suffer without representation “Beyond the demolitions in its suburbs and the frequent, violent clashes around the al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem is the scene of a quieter shame. Southeast of the holy city live the Jahalin Bedouin, a community that has been repeatedly displaced and transferred, now enduring unimaginable poverty beside Jerusalem\u2019s largest …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[101,183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}