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Satire for Sanity
Bulldozing Palestine, one village at a time
Israel wants the village of Khan al-Ahmar razed to the ground to cut off Jerusalem from the West Bank.
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US soldiers drag a Palestinian girl from her threatened West Bank home
Since 2017, the whole Bedouin village has been threatened with demolition by the Israeli authorities. Earlier that day, Israeli soldiers attacked villagers and activists who had staged a protest, injuring 35.
Khan al-Ahmar, a village of 180 people, is about 15km northeast of Jerusalem and falls within what is known as Area C of the occupied West Bank, as defined by the Oslo Accords. The area has been inundated with more than 300,000 Israelis living in 125 illegal settlements and is under Israeli administrative control. Under the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authorities was supposed to take over administering the area, but, of course, Israel never let that happen.
As a result, it is now the Israeli state that controls the land in Area C and that decides on building permits. Khan al-Ahmar existed before the state of Israel was created in 1948. In the 1950s, Palestinian Bedouins expelled from the Negev desert by the Israeli army moved to the West Bank and settled in the village, expanding it.
The Israeli state has now decided that all its buildings are illegal and have to be demolished. Khan al-Ahmar is located between two expanding illegal Israeli settlements - Kfar Adumim (founded in 1979) and Maale Adumim (founded in 1975) - and on the so-called "E1 corridor" between East Jerusalem and the West Bank, which the Israeli state would like to control in order to cut off Palestinian access to the city.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/bulldozing-palestine-village-time-180709084624862.html
They look like Izraeli soldiers, don't they- but the US government is funding the ethnic-cleansing with a tax-payer handout of 38 billion dollars.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-38-billion-defense-aid-package-idUSKCN1GB2NQ