After two decades of procedure, the jurisdiction unanimously authorized the army to chase a community of Bedouins.
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Of these hills where spring vegetation completes to dust, the view extends far towards the Negev desert. Oliviers, wheat grow chichement below Jinba’s Palestinian hamlet, which seems to hang on to this inhospitable land. The building is in good part of aluminum and plastic. The water is transported by tanks, the electricity produced by solar panels. Everything in this extreme south of the West Bank occupied by Israel is temporary, except the limestone rock caves where the villagers sleep in the hottest in summer, the coldest of winter.
Some dozens of families live here, sedentary Bedouins, at the mercy of the destruction that the Israeli army has been carrying out since the 1980s. Today, they fear having reached the end of a long fight to stay on their land. The High Israeli Court of Justice rejected all the arguments of their petitions late on the night of May 4 to 5, on the eve of the celebration of the birth of the State, in 1948. It ends two decades of legal proceedings , and opens the way to the expulsion of a thousand Palestinians, spread over eight hamlets in the region of Masafer Yatta.
“The High Court of Justice of Israel has ruled that the forced transfer of hundreds of Palestinians from their homes and the destruction of their communities – with the manifest goal of seizing their land (…) was legal, “denounced the Israeli anti -colonization NGO B’tselem. By this decision, the High Court sweeps away one of the foundations of international law and the Geneva Convention of 1949, defined as a crime against humanity by the status of Rome. Adopted unanimously by three magistrates, it was written by judge David Mintz. This colonist, which lies in the establishment of Dolev (Center), was appointed in 2017 by a Minister of Far Right justice, Ayelet Shaked, whose long work of Sape is bearing fruit.
The judges believe that such an expulsion is not motivated by political reasons, but of security, and responds to a request from the army. This means that they confirm a balance of power. The military administration made the region a shooting field in 1981, one of others in the West Bank, where they proliferate since the Israeli conquest of 1967 – 18 % of the territory is covered. At the time, General Ariel Sharon uses his Ministry of Agriculture to advance colonization. He believes that this reserved area, around Masafer Yatta, will contain “the expansion of Arab villagers from mountain sides to the desert”.
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