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Israel tightens grip on West Bank Bedouin
Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:44
Mya Guarnieri for the Alternative Information Center (AIC)
On Monday, January 9, Israeli authorities shut down "the only road leading to Khan al Ahmar elementary school," the Palestinian news agency WAFA reports. The move came a day after Israeli authorities issued a number of stop work orders in Umm al Kheir. Both Khan al Ahmar and Umm al Kheir are Bedouin villages located in the West Bank's Israeli-controlled Area C.
One of the structures that received a stop work order in Umm al Kheir on January 8 (photo: Operation Dove)
Israeli authortities blocked the road leading to Khan al Ahmar's school with massive cement blocks and a high fence in order to keep children from reaching it. According to WAFA, the Palestinian Ministry of Education "condemned the closure."
Khan al Ahmar's residents are refugees from the 1948 war. In the past, the children from the village went to United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) schools in Jerusalem. But the separation barrier brought an end to that. Because of extreme difficulties reaching other schools within the West Bank, parents began keeping their kids home.
A number of local and European NGOs built Khan al Ahmar's elementary school out of rubber tires and mud. It opened in 2009.
According to Operation Dove, an organization that works closely with Palestinian residents of the South Hebron Hills, Israeli authorities also delivered stop work orders to residents of Umm al Kheir on Sunday, January 8. The orders will effect eight structures in the village.
Operation Dove reports: "In the morning the Israeli Civil Administration, escorted by an Israeli army jeep, entered the Palestinian village of Umm Al Kheir. After examining different buildings, the officers registered the identity of the owners of eight structures and then issued stop work orders... The deadline to appeal to Israeli High Court is set for January 22. In case of failure of any appeal, the stop work orders will be followed by demolition orders.
The [residents] of Umm Al Kheir said that 12 more structures in the village are under demolition orders (eight of which are [homes]) for a total of 20 structures. That means that most of the village risks to be eliminated in the [near] future."
Two of the families received stop work orders for houses they are building to replace those that the Israelis demolished in September 2011.
Umm Al Kheir is a Bedouin village in Israeli-controlled Area C. Built in 1948, the village is adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Karmel, which was founded in the early 1980s and which the state hopes to continue to expand.
Israel has demolished a number of structures, including homes, in Umm Al Kheir and other West Bank villages under the pretense that they lack Israeli-issued permits--even when the villages predate the occupation or the state of Israel itself.