On Friday, the Israeli army delivered demolition orders targeting eleven structures in the Abu Nuwwar Bedouin community, east of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
Residents of the Bedouin community said the army delivered the demolition orders targeting various residential and agricultural structures and added that the entire community is under threat of being demolition.
They added that the community has been subject to constant Israeli attacks and demolition, part of the constant Israeli attempt to uproot it.
The Bedouins in Abu Nuwwar were first displaced from their homes and lands in the Tal Arad area in Be’er As-Sabe’ in the year 1948 when Israel was established in the historic land of Palestine.
The Palestinians own the land where the community currently stands and are officially registered in the deeds of the nearby Anata Palestinian town. The community is home to about 181 Palestinians, more than half of whom are children.
Israel is trying to remove all the Palestinian Bedouin communities from the area to allow the construction and expansion of its illegal colonies, which would also block any Palestinian geographical contiguity.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory”.
