{"id":3487,"date":"2017-01-02T16:51:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2017-08-29T07:55:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T07:55:42","slug":"israeli-forces-demolish-11-bedouin-residential-structures-87-left-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/?p=3487","title":{"rendered":"Israeli forces demolish 11 Bedouin residential structures, 87 left homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 2, 2017 at 3:50 pm<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3488\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3488\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli bulldozers being transported to a Palestinian village in the Negev [August 2016]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Israeli bulldozers Monday morning demolished 11 residential structures in the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar in the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Dawood Jahalin, secretary of the Fatah movement in Jerusalem\u2019s Bedouin communities, told\u00a0<em>Ma\u2019an<\/em>\u00a0that Israeli bulldozers escorted by Israeli forces demolished 11 residential structures without allowing the owners to evacuate personal belongings and furniture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">87 Palestinians, the majority of whom are women and children, were left homeless as a result of the demolitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Jahalin added that Israeli forces imposed a siege on the area and closed its entrances during the demolitions, noting that the same 11 structures, made out of tin sheets and wood, had previously been demolished for the first time in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Khan al-Ahmar is one of several Bedouin villages facing forced relocation due to plans by Israeli authorities to build thousands of homes for Jewish-only settlements in the E1 corridor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Settlement construction in E1 would effectively divide the West Bank and make the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state \u2013 as envisaged by the internationally backed two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict \u2013 almost impossible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Israeli activity in E1 has attracted widespread international condemnation, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has in the past said that \u201cE1 is a red line that cannot be crossed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">A spokesperson for the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Israeli agency responsible for implementing Israeli policies in Palestinian territory, told\u00a0<em>Ma\u2019an<\/em>\u00a0at the time that \u201cenforcement measures\u201d were carried out against \u201ceight illegal structures\u201d belonging to Palestinians near the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim \u2013 which, like all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, is illegal under international law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The spokesperson said that the structures were built in 2012 without hard-to-obtain, Israeli-issued building permits.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20170102-israeli-forces-demolish-11-bedouin-residential-structures-87-left-homeless\/\">https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20170102-israeli-forces-demolish-11-bedouin-residential-structures-87-left-homeless\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2, 2017 at 3:50 pm Israeli bulldozers Monday morning demolished 11 residential structures in the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar in the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem. Dawood Jahalin, secretary of the Fatah movement in Jerusalem\u2019s Bedouin communities, told\u00a0Ma\u2019an\u00a0that Israeli bulldozers escorted by Israeli forces demolished 11 residential structures without allowing the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}