Eviction Orders Issued for Palestinian Families
The orders were issued late Sunday and the families, who mainly live in steel structures and tents in the Jabal al-Baba neighborhood of al-Ezariya, were given until March 3 to evacuate their homes, said Palestinian Ma’an News Agency.
Palestinian Popular Committee spokesman Hani Halabiya said around 300 Palestinian Bedouins from Jahalin live in 22 homes made of steel, wood and tin boards, as well as tents in that area.
Last week, Israeli forces bulldozed five steel structures belonging to the Bedouin al-Jahalin community in al-Eizariya, leaving 55 people homeless.
The Jahalin Bedouins lived in the Negev Desert prior to 1948, but were evicted from their traditional lands by the Israeli military in the early 1950s.
Israel is trying to displace the community of Jabal al-Baba to expand the nearby settlement of Maale Adumim.
Israel occupied the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the Six-Day War of 1967. It withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but Israeli forces have been carrying out regular deadly raids into the enclave ever since the pullout.
The United Nations regards the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured in the war and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
Source: Press TV
