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HIGH COURT TEMPORARILY SUSPENDS RAZING OF BEDOUIN VILLAGE KHAN AL-AHMAR
The Supreme Court injunction gave the state until July 11 to respond to the villagers' contention that they had been unfairly denied building permits.
BY TOVAH LAZAROFF
JULY 6, 2018 00:53
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THE BEDUIN encampment of Khan al-Ahmar is seen near Ma’aleh Adumim.. (photo credit: AMMAR AWAD / REUTERS)
The illegal Palestinian Bedouin herding village of Khan Al-Ahmar received a last minute reprieve late Thursday night when the High Court of Justice issued a temporary injunction just as the IDF had begun preparation for its demolition.
The United Nations and the European Union had appealed to the Israeli government to halt the destruction of the village, located on state land off Route 1 near the Kfar Adumim settlement.
Its fate, along with that of the illegal Palestinian herding village of Sussiya, has been debated in the UN Security Council, the UN Human Rights Council and the British Parliament.
International reaction against the decision intensified after IDF bulldozers began arriving at the village on Wednesday to open up dirt roads for bulldozers and trucks.
In response a number of European countries, including Great Britain, submitted a formal letter of protest to Israel.
Such movement came to a halt after the High Court injunction. The court gave the state until July 11 to respond to the villagers' contention that they had been unfairly denied building permits, lawyer Alaa Mahajna told Reuters.
Previous appeals to the court against state plans to destroy the village and its adjacent school had failed.
Israel said it plans to relocate the 52 families to permanent homes near a landfill about 12 kilometers away, near the Palestinian village of Abu Dis.
The families, who are part of the Jahalin tribe, were relocated by Israel in the early 1950s from the Beersheba area to the West Bank, which at the time was under Jordanian rule.
On Thursday the UN said that Israel has increased its activities against West Bank Palestinian and Bedouin herding villages since July 1, removing at least 19 structures and displacing 59 Bedouins and Palestinians, including 37 children.
Nine of the tents and shacks that were razed were located in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Abu Nuwar, located near Khan Al-Ahmar.
One home was destroyed in the illegal Palestinian village of Sussiya, according to the UN.
West Bank UNRWA head Scott Anderson said, “The latest developments are of serious concern as it is evident that they are undertaken with the objective of relocating the concerned communities, as well as causing serious distress to the vulnerable residents who are watching what appear to be preparations for the demolition of their community.”
“These pastoral communities are mostly Palestinian refugees – originally displaced from their tribal lands in the Negev. They should not be forced to experience a second displacement against their will,” he added.
The UN and the EU have assisted the West Bank Palestinian and Bedouin communities out of a belief that housing is a basic human right and out of a frustration that the Civil Administrants grants only a few building permits in Area C of the West Bank.
Right-wing Israelis and politicians, however, said they were frustrated by the European reaction and the High Court injection, particularly their lack of empathy for settlers whose homes were demolished as the result of court rulings.
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein tweeted: “You celebrate when the High Court of Justice ordered the demolition of a Jewish community in Judea and Samaria but God forbid a Bedouin village is destroyed [the attitude is], ‘God forbid.’ This is hypocrisy.”
The right-wing NGO Regavim charged that European countries had colluded with the Palestinian Authority to take control of the Ma’aleh Adumim area by helping to finance building in Khan Al-Ahmar.
“The Khan Al-Ahmar case has become a litmus test for the State of Israel, which must stand firm against the campaign of pressure and relocate the outpost,” Regavim said.
https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-...azing-of-Bedouin-village-Khan-al-Ahmar-561791
You got rampant religious Fundamentalism and religious extremism in Israel.
What you suggesting here is that the court has asked to proceed with the genocide by other means.
Nothing to be proud about that you are desperate to share with us.