Entire Bedouin village faced with forced displacement

An entire village consisting of dozens of Palestinian Bedouin families is threatened with imminent forced displacement, after Israel issued a rare evacuation order for the whole community.


Jabal al-Baba, which lies to the east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, is home to more than 300 people.

"Residents are becoming paranoid of the future because it is unknown," Atalah Jahalen, a local community leader, told Al Jazeera on Saturday.

"All their lives, they have lived and built in this area, and now all of it can be destroyed at any moment."

According to Jahalen, Israel's civil administration and police entered Jabal al-Baba on Thursday. They hung a poster in a central location detailing the evacuation decision and displaying a map of the area.

The order informed residents that they had eight days to collect their belongings and leave, or else Israeli authorities would return to force them out.

Israeli officials also scattered copies of the map on the ground and took pictures of it before leaving.

Israel's new strategy
Jabal al-Baba is situated in the heart of Israel's contentious E1 plan, which aims to connect the illegal mega settlement of Maale Adumim to Jerusalem - settlements are considered illegal under international law.

The plan would further isolate occupied East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank and sever the Palestinian territory from north to south.......http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/entire-bedouin-village-faced-forced-displacement-171118172811185.html
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