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Haaretz
April 26, 2018
He was swept away near his home in a Bedouin encampment a few hundred meters from the Mamshit National Park. He was found about 3 kilometers further down the stream in critical condition by a relative, who called in the rescue unit. He was evacuated by an Air Force helicopter but died on the way toÃâà...
Haaretz
April 25, 2018
Nonetheless, Erdan admitted the present enforcement was inadequate and that the issue of the Bedouin population in the south requires thorough work on the part of all government institutions. He suggested legalizing the Bedouins' unauthorized constructions and communities as a first step, alongsideÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
April 25, 2018
About 180 people, including 90 children, live in Khan al-Ahmar Ab al-Hilu, a community east of Jerusalem established in the early 1950s – before Israel occupied the West Bank – by Bedouin Palestine refugees from the Negev desert. Israeli military planning documents do not recognize the community as aÃâà...
Haaretz
April 24, 2018
In the 1979 document proposing the establishment of Kfar Adumim, some of the founders of the West Bank settlement already identified a problem with the surrounding area. “The space is devoid of any permanent settlement, and of Jewish settlement in particular,” states the document. It went on, “TodayÃâà...
Reliefweb
April 18, 2018
Today, the Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr. Jamie McGoldrick, and the UNRWA Director of Operations in the West Bank, Mr. Scott Anderson, joined Palestinian officials in a visit to the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al Ahmar-Abu al Helu, on the outskirts of East Jerusalem in the occupied PalestinianÃâà...
UN News
April 18, 2018
It is one of 46 Bedouin communities in the central West Bank that the UN considers being at risk of forcible transfer, due to a coercive environment generated by Israeli practices and policies, plans to move the communities from their current locations and other reasons. Eighteen of these communities,Ãâà...
ReliefWeb
April 16, 2018
Of concern, in late March, the Israeli authorities requested the Israeli Supreme Court to dismiss a petition filed by the Al Muntar Bedouin community (Ramallah), against the demolition of its only school, and to remove an interim court order preventing the demolition. A decision on the case is pending.
Palestine Chronicle
December 31, 1999
UNRWA Director of Ops in the West Bank, Scott Anderson: "The entire community of Khan el Ahmar-Abu al Helu, the vast majority of whom are Palestine refugees who are amongst the most vulnerable Bedouin communities in the West Bank, is facing the risk of demolitions… +relocation". — Marian HoukÃâà...
