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Palestinian
children search for toys in the remains of their home in Jinba after
it was demolished by Israeli bulldozers on February 2, 2016. Hazem
Bader/AFP
Palestinian villagers brace for more demolitions after Israeli bulldozers leave 100 homeless
JINBA // Palestinian villagers in a remote corner of the occupied West Bank are bracing themselves for more demolitions this week, just days after Israeli army bulldozers left more than a hundred people homeless.
The
demolitions are the latest development in a 17-year dispute over
Israeli plans to clear 1,000 Palestinian residents from a 30 square
kilometre area of land south of Hebron to make way for an army
firing-practise zone.
Villagers
and their lawyers had been engaged in mediation efforts with the
Israeli government to settle the dispute but last Monday Israel
announced that talks had collapsed.
Ali
Mohammed Jabareen, 54, a sheep herder and construction worker, lost
the house he lived in with his wife and eight children on Tuesday
when the army razed 22 residential buildings in the hamlets of Jinba
and Halawa.
His
son, who has five children, also lost his home. Both buildings were
in Jinba.
The
first night after the demolitions they stayed out in the open with
just blankets to protect them from the elements. Mr Jabareen’s
3-year-old grandson was so traumatised he could not sleep.
“He
was yelling that the army is coming and behaving like a mad person,”
said Mr Jabareen.
The
next night, they were able sleep inside tents provided by an aid
agency. The grandfather was able to save mattresses, blankets, rugs
and four solar panels from his home before it was demolished.
“There
were two bulldozers here and border police and army jeeps. I would
say there were 40 to 50 soldiers,” said Nidal Yunis, a local
government official, standing amid the rubble of in Jinba.
Ten
more residential buildings in the area were also marked for
demolition by the army, but a court injunction obtained by lawyers
for the villagers the same day blocked this from happening until a
hearing is held on Tuesday.
This
hearing at Israel’s High Court of Justice in Jerusalem will
determine whether the army has a legal basis to destroy the
additional buildings in the villages of Al Fahit, Majaz, Sfay, Um
Tuba and Al Mercaz.
The
piece of land termed by Israel as “Firing Zone 918” was first
designated as a military training zone in the 1980s but it was not
until 1999 that the army moved against the Palestinian residents,
demolishing structures and forcibly evicting them.
A
court injunction that same year allowed villagers to return to the
area, pending deliberation of a legal challenge to the evictions. The
court on several occasions referred the matter to arbitration, a
procedure for resolving disputes outside of court. This last happened
in September 2013 after 25 leading Israeli authors signed a petition
asking that the villages be saved.
The
European Union has also called on Israel not to expel the villagers
or demolish their homes.
The
arbitration process is secret and it is not entirely clear why the
latest attempt failed. But according to Israel’s Haaretz newspaper,
the army had asked to begin conducting monthly training exercises on
the land lasting for several days at a time. The residents, who would
have been forced to vacate the area during exercises,
refused, Haaretz said.
The
Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat), the
military body responsible for civilian affairs in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip, said the latest demolitions were “enforcement measures
... taken against illegal structures and solar panels built within a
military zone”.
Cogat
said that during the last two years, Israeli authorities had
conducted “a dialogue process with the population in order to
legalise the structures.” But it accused the Palestinians of being
unwilling to “get the situation in order” and of continuing
“illegal construction.”
Bron: Information Clearing House.
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