{"id":4340,"date":"2018-05-30T12:32:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T12:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2018-06-01T12:35:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:35:29","slug":"uk-minister-urges-israel-not-to-demolish-west-bank-bedouin-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/?p=4340","title":{"rendered":"UK minister urges Israel not to demolish West Bank Bedouin village"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0AFP<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0TOI STAFF<\/a><\/p>\n

A British minister on Wednesday made a last-gasp call to Israel to not\u00a0raze a Palestinian Bedouin village, after\u00a0Israel\u2019s Supreme Court rejected a final appeal against its demolition.<\/p>\n

The court last week backed the demolition of the village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank, located close to several Israeli settlements east of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

Residents said they expected the demolition of the village, which is home to 180 people and includes a school, to happen in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

Alistair Burt, British minister of state for the Middle East, visited the village Wednesday and called on the Israeli government to show restraint.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very concerned about the impact of the court case last week and the imminent demolition,\u201d he told AFP during the visit.<\/p>\n

He warned that any forced relocation \u201ccould constitute forcible transfer of people as far as the United Nations is concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forcible transfer is considered a violation of the Geneva Conventions.<\/p>\n

Burt said they were still seeking to find an alternative to the demolition but stopped short of threatening any direct measures against the Israeli government.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will be wanting to seek to persuade Israeli authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A boy walks through the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, near the Jerusalem-Dead Sea highway, on April 13, 2018. (Yaniv Nadav\/Flash90)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Israeli\u00a0supreme court ruled the village was built<\/a>\u00a0without the relevant building permits.<\/p>\n

Critics say such permits are nearly impossible to obtain for Palestinians in Israeli-controlled areas of the West Bank.<\/p>\n

Israel says it has offered the residents an alternative location.<\/p>\n

Last week a group of\u00a074 Democratic lawmakers<\/a>\u00a0urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt the planned demolition of Khan al-Ahmar and another village, Sussiya.<\/p>\n

Eid Abu Khamis, a spokesman for the village, told AFP he had heard messages of support from Western governments for many years but had seen little practical steps to stop Israel.<\/p>\n

He told Burt he would like to see action, rather than condemnation.<\/p>\n

Separately Wednesday, Israel approved the construction of nearly 2,000 new settlement homes in the West Bank, including 90 within a kilometer of Khan al-Ahmar, the Peace Now settlement watchdog said. Peace Now called the approvals near the village \u201cthe embodiment of exploitation and evil.\u201c<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/uk-minister-urges-israel-not-to-demolish-west-bank-bedouin-village\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0AFP\u00a0and\u00a0TOI STAFF A British minister on Wednesday made a last-gasp call to Israel to not\u00a0raze a Palestinian Bedouin village, after\u00a0Israel\u2019s Supreme Court rejected a final appeal against its demolition. The court last week backed the demolition of the village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank, located close to several Israeli settlements east of Jerusalem. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4341,"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\/4340"}],"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=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}