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.
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The Land Research Center
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