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Titolo: Israel Evicting the Indigenous

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Israel Evicting the Indigenous
By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
 
JERUSALEM, Oct 26, 2011 (IPS) - As Israel moves ahead with a plan to 
forcibly displace tens of thousands of Palestinian Bedouins in the 
occupied West Bank, Mohammad Al-Korshan and his family are facing the 
real prospect of not only losing their home, but their traditional way 
of life.
 
"The Bedouins depend on animals. We can’t take care of them in the 
village or in the city. All the Bedouins work with animals. If we go to 
the city, they kill us. They kill the Bedouins. After a few more years, 
you won’t have Bedouins in the area," says Al-Korshan, who lives in a 
Bedouin encampment with more than 90 other families near the West Bank 
town Anata, northeast of Jerusalem.
 
"We want to stay in our homes. If they damage our homes or our tents, we 
want to build again. We won’t move. Even if they want to kill us, we 
want to stay. We haven’t any place to go," he told IPS.
 
Quietly unveiled to local aid organisations in early October, Israel’s 
Civil Administration, the body that governs Area C of the occupied West 
Bank, which is under full Israeli military and administrative control, 
plans to expel approximately 27,000 Bedouins from their communities in 
Area C within three to six years.
 
According to Israeli human rights group BTselem, the first phase is 
planned to begin as early as January 2012, and would forcibly evict 
approximately 2,300 people – who are currently living in about 20 
communities in proximity to the Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim – 
and transfer them to a new location near the Abu Dis garbage dump, just 
east of Jerusalem.
 
The Civil Administration will expel Bedouins from the Jordan Valley in 
the second phase of the plan.
 
"We live now on the road between Jerusalem and Jericho. The Israeli 
government wants to close this area because we are near the settlement 
of Kufr Adumim. They want to take our land for their settlements," Al- 
Korshan, who heads the Jerusalem Bedouin Cooperative Committee, said.
 
"It’s very difficult for us. We haven’t any place to move. Our land is 
in Beer Sheva and we are refugees."
 
According to the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of 
Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territories, 
more than 80 percent of the Bedouin families living in the hills east of 
Jerusalem are refugees. Most have demolition orders against their homes 
and aren’t connected to electricity, while about half don’t have regular 
access to water.
 
OCHA also found that the proposed relocation site for the Bedouins – 
near the town of Al Eizariya, where 200 Bedouin families were relocated 
in the 1990s to make way for the expansion of the Ma’ale Adumim 
settlement – would threaten the community’s health, lifestyle and 
overall wellbeing.
 
"The proposed site does not meet minimum standards in terms of distance 
from the municipal dumping grounds, which is likely to pose a health 
hazard to the communities, and provides limited access to grazing lands. 
Previously relocated families report negative consequences, including 
health concerns, loss of livelihood, deteriorated living conditions, 
loss of tribal cohesion and erosion of traditional lifestyles," the 
organisation wrote in a statement.
 
Suleiman Mazarah and his family, members of the Jahalin Bedouin tribe, 
were forcibly transferred to this area by the Israeli authorities in 
1997. Mazarah told IPS that the community continues to suffer from the move.
 
"(The Israelis) put us in an area near the garbage dump of the 
municipality of Jerusalem. They are going to move the rest of the tribe 
now from Area C to our area. This action will destroy the Bedouin life. 
When they put them in a small area, their jobs will be destroyed because 
there is no place to keep animals. They won’t have work," Mazarah said.
 
"Most of the people here are without work, so they don’t have anything 
to give their children. If they move another group of people here, it 
will be much worse."
 
Forcibly transferring Bedouin communities without their consent, OCHA 
stated, also violates international law. "As an occupying power, Israel 
has an obligation to protect the Palestinian civilian population and to 
administer the territory for the benefit of that population. Any 
voluntary move or transfer of civilians must meet international 
standards, including relating to a free and informed choice," the 
organisation said.
 
According to Mazarah, plans to forcibly displace Bedouin communities in 
Area C of the West Bank can be linked to the historical and ongoing 
dispossession of Bedouin tribes since the founding of the state of 
Israel, including recent Israeli plans to displace 30,000 Bedouins 
currently living in the southern Negev desert.
 
"The same thing they are doing with the people in the Naqab (Negev), 
they are doing with us here. But in the Naqab, the Bedouins there have 
Israeli nationality, and here we are Palestinian. The Israelis don’t 
want any Bedouins in the land," Mazarah said.
 
"Our condition, and their condition also, is very bad. These forgotten 
people are suffering from the forced displacement, and it’s destroying 
their lives." (END)
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