Israel orders eviction of Bedouins near East Quds

Israeli authorities have issued eviction orders to Palestinian Bedouins living in a village east of al-Quds (Jerusalem), telling them to leave their homes within weeks.

Local residents said they would be forced from their land in less than a month, Maan News Agency reported on Saturday.

The residing Bedouin families said, however, they would remain on their land.

The forced evacuation is part of Israel’s plan to expand a settlement located near the Bedouin village of Abu Nuwwar.

Dozens of Palestinian families will be forced out of 40 hectares of land to pave the ground for the building of 1,500 settler units.

This comes as Israel continues to press ahead with its settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories despite a global outcry. The international community regards all Israeli settlements built on the occupied Palestinian lands as illegal.

On Saturday, the European Union (EU) criticized the Israeli regime for its new plan to continue illegal settlement expansion on the occupied Palestinian lands, saying the plans are in fact an obstacle to the so-called peace process between Israelis and Palestinians.

Two days earlier, Israel approved the construction of 900 new illegal settler units in East al-Quds.

More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967.

Palestinians are seeking to create an independent state on the territories of the West Bank, East al-Quds, and the besieged Gaza Strip and are demanding that Israel withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories.

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