Demolishing 6 Residents in Wa’r al Bek

Demolishing 6 Residents in Wa’r al Bek
On January 23, 2012, the Israeli Occupation Authorities demolished 6 shacks, inhabited by 6 families, in an area known as Wa’r al Bek in Anata. Israeli troops accompanied by two dozers broke into the area bnd evacuated the shacks before demolishing them.
 
Table 1: victims:
Victim
Area (m2)
Family members
children
Mousa Jahaleen
60
8
6
Yousof Jahaleen
60
7
5
Ahmad Jahaleen
50
5
3
Jibreel Jahaleen
70
4
2
Mariam Jahaleen
70
5
4
Jameela Jahaleen
50
5
3
Total
360
34
23
*source: field work –Israeli Human Rights Monitoring Unit – LRC
  
  
Picture 1-7: traces of destruction
  
Abdullah Jahaleen stated to an LRC observer: ‘we received two demolition orders in the past, precisely on July 23, 2011 and October 23, 2011. We have inhabited the area since before 1967. We have been displaced many times in the past. At 23:00, around 200 hundred Israeli soldiers, 10 vehicles, and two dozers broke into the village and leveled the shacks. They also attacked Yousuf Jahaleen who tried to get back to his house. The campaign lasted till for three hours. I asked the officer in charge, what do you want? You expelled us from our lands in the Negev, what do you want? He answered while pointing at the military encampment 500 meters awayand said: ‘I am sitting there and I simply do not like the view when I look; go to Ramallah, you have no place here’.’
Picture 8: the Israeli military base
 
Al Jahaleen are nomads who were deported from their dwellings in Tal Arar in the Negev in 1954. They moved to al Khan al Ahmar and Bani Na’im before settling in Anata area. More than 60 % of the people are unemployed due to the Israeli restrictions on herding.
Categories: Demolition