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Israelis destroy Bedouin kindergarten

First published 21 August 2017

Israelis destroy Bedouin kindergarten

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Times of Israel

Israeli Civil Administration officials and security forces on Monday demolished a temporary structure built without a permit that was to house a kindergarten in a Jerusalem-area Bedouin village.



The room, built of wood and metal paneling in the Bedouin village of Jabal al-Baba adjacent to al-Azariya, in the West Bank and just east of Jerusalem, was slated to open next month as a schoolroom for 25 four- to six-year-olds.

According to a statement from Israeli rights group B’Tselem, the kindergarten was to be the primary childcare facility for some two dozen Palestinian families from the Bedouin encampment at the site who otherwise have no access to either the Israeli or Palestinian education systems.

A picture of the demolition order circulated by B’Tselem showed the official reason for the demolition was the listing of the structure as “illegal construction,” meaning that it was built without a permit from Israeli authorities.

In a statement, the group said the Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration also confiscated classroom equipment including desks, chairs, cabinets and blackboards worth some NIS 10,000 ($2,765).

A number of traditionally nomadic Bedouin communities are based in the hills east of Jerusalem.

Activists have long criticized Israel for neglecting their development needs and seeking to move them from sprawling encampments to urban residential areas. Palestinians fear this is to enable the expansion of settlements in the area, which could further isolate the Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem from other Palestinian population centers.

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Israel Demolishes Kindergarten in Bedouin Community Near Jerusalem

Ma’an News

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces have reportedly demolished a kindergarten in the Bedouin community of Jabal al-Baba in the outskirts of al-Eizariya in the occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, Israeli media reported Monday that the Israeli Civil Administration is threatening to destroy a number of homes in Jabal al-Baba and the nearby Bir al-Maskub area, despite an order by the Israeli Supreme Court forbidding the demolitions until the court determines whether the communities, which have been living there for decades, can be “legalized” in the eyes of the Israeli state.

Bedouin communities such as Jabal al-Baba have been settled in Jerusalem’s outskirts, now within the so-called E1 corridor near the illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, since they were forcibly displaced from their villages in Beersheba during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.

According to a report from Jerusalem-based al-Quds News and corroborated by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the kindergarten in Jabal al-Baba was dismantled early Monday morning.

Large numbers of Israeli soldiers and forces from the Israeli Civil Administration raided the community as Israeli bulldozers began to raze the school to the ground.

According to al-Quds, Israeli forces confiscated property from inside the kindergarten before the demolition and ripped apart European Union flags that were posted in the building — an indication that the structure had been built with EU funds.

In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson for COGAT, the larger Israeli entity of which the Civil Administration is part, told Ma’an: “Today an illegal tin and wood shed was caught in Eizaria, that was established over the past two weeks without receiving the required permits. The shed was confiscated by virtue of the procedure to confiscate caravans and in accordance to the law. We would like to emphasize that the construction was not in use.”

In addition to reports from al-Quds and OCHA, Palestinian Authority-owned Wafa news agency also cited witnesses as saying the structure demolished was a kindergarten. Due to being continuously targeted with demolitions and suffering from high poverty rates, most shelter in Bedouin communities are makeshift, informal structures.

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Meanwhile, according to Israeli news daily Haaretz, the Israeli Supreme Court issued interim restraining orders against the demolition of a number of homes in Jabal al-Baba and Bir al-Maskub in February.

Despite this, a subcommittee of the Civil Administration threatened to carry out the demolition immediately if the residents didn’t return certain documents to defend their case within one week. The Bedouins then submitted a request last Thursday to declare the Civil Administration in contempt of court.

Israeli forces have demolished dozens of homes in Jabal al-Baba area, many of them built with assistance from the EU and humanitarian organizations, over the past few years. The hill is populated by some 55 Bedouin families (around 300 people) who have inhabited the area for 65 years, and face constant threat of being expelled from their homes.

Some 90 Palestinian Bedouins, the majority of them children, were left homeless when Israeli forces disassembled EU-donated mobile homes in the Jabal al-Baba in May 2016.

Jabal al-Baba, like other Bedouin communities in the region, is under threat of forcible transfer by Israel for being located in the contentious “E1 corridor” set up by the Israeli government to link annexed East Jerusalem with the mega settlement of Maale Adumim.

Israeli authorities plan to build thousands of homes for Jewish-only settlements in E1, which would effectively divide the West Bank and make the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state — as envisaged by the two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict — almost impossible.

Rights groups and Bedouin community members have sharply criticized Israel’s relocation plans for the Bedouin residing near the illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, claiming that the removal would displace indigenous Palestinians for the sake of expanding Israeli settlements across the occupied West Bank in violation of international law.

Two weeks ago, Israeli authorities seized solar panels that powered an elementary and preschool in the Bedouin community of Abu Nuwwar, located in the E1 area, despite a petition against the seizure having been filed to the Israeli Supreme court, which issued a restraining order against the confiscation an hour after the panels were taken.

An elementary school in the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, which is also within the so-called E1 corridor, has also long been slated for demolition by Israel.

After a visit by the EU Heads of Missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah to Khan al-Ahmar in March, the EU missions reminded Israel that demolishing the school would not only have a severe negative impact on Palestinian children’s right to education, but would also represent a violation of international humanitarian law.

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10 COMMENTS

  1. The Zionist Zealots are Demonic Creatures! Remember the same Tribe, Ashkenazi-Khazar so called ‘Jewish Converts’ have done the greatest ‘Crimes Against Humanity’, under the ‘Flag of Marxist Bolshevik-Communism’, what I call, ‘The Jewish Plague’, that they spread from St. Petersburg, Russia to Shanghai, China, that ‘DISEASE of the Jews’ resulted in the deaths of close to 200 million Human Beings in the 20th century! Under their ‘Flag of Zionism’ the Demonic creatures are still at it1 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine! Murdering without remorse, but with ‘Gusto and Pride’ innocent Men, Women and Children by the tens of thousands! Down with Zionism1 Zionism is the CURSE of mankind! What the, Demonic Zionist Creatures do to a friend? ‘False Flag’ attack; http://www.holocaustonthehighsea.com the ‘Cancer of Zionism’, must be ELIMINATED, wiped off the face of the earth, if Mankind desires, PEACE on Earth!!

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    There are three options for the jews, Share, Move or eventually be obliterated.
    Their choice.

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    Half of them on the list are add on names just to beef up the case. Not one post on their Twitter accounts says anything about Palestinians.

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    Short sighted …

  4. Zionism was always ready to sacrifice the Ashkenazim for their nefarious ends. Remember, folks, this is an apocalyptic death cult. The US variant of it, Christian Zionism, even goes so far as to say that Hitler was doing God’s work when he sent 6 million of them to the death camps. This was to drive the rest of them to Palestine. The magic number, 6 million, is not a real number any more than that the Earth was created in exactly 6 days. The Ashkenazim figure in to their crazy end-times eschatology. This is a faith-based belief system so don’t bother them with facts or evidence.

  5. The price to be paid for this tragedy will be accruing and eventually the perpetrators/supporters will be required to acknowledge their responsibly as they will not be able to control buy History.
    The Palestinian Holocaust continues unabated…

  6. The only language the Israelis understand is brute force. No amount of International Law, or other Legal bodies can make them understand reason or human values.

  7. LS…
    Israeli are per definition not human They call themselves the chosen people. Chosen by Satan alright. Israeli are not Yews but Khazarians. Murderers ! Thief. Importer ! Liers ! The curse of history of mankind !

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