More than 12,500 Palestinian Bedouins living in the areas around occupied Jerusalem Al-Quds and Bethlehem are facing dangers of displacement that is considered by Palestinians as a war against humanity.
It is obvious that the real intention of the Israeli occupation is to divide the West Bank into cantons in order to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders with East al-Quds as its capital.
The Civil Administration (Israeli Military Rule Administration for the Occupied Lands of 1967) seeks to evict thousands of Bedouins, known as Arab Al-Jahalin, spread in the mountainous areas around East Jerusalem, to the Jordan Valley, as part of the occupation’s scheme to minimize the number of Arab Palestinian citizens in the city and its surroundings.
More than 42 international organizations have signed a petition, condemning the compulsory displacement of Bedouins and all Palestiniansو hoping for immediate action.
Israeli occupation had already demolished more than 23 Bedouin villages for settlement expansion purposes, and since the beginning of the year 2014, has demolished more than 350 Bedouin homes and several schools, and is still preventing access of humanitarian aid.
In this edition of Coffee in Palestine we ask: How have these evictions impacted the Bedouins’ lives?