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Students sit in a classroom at school in the Jahalin Bedouin community of Khan Al-Ahmar, West Bank, February 22, 2017. (Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Activestills.org)
Demolishing Palestinian schools ‘a quiet population transfer’
By destroying schools in Palestinian villages in Area C and elsewhere, Israel is forcing Palestinians to make a cruel choice — between their land and their children’s futures. When the children of Beit Ta’mar, a village south-east of Bethlehem, left their improvised schoolhouse for winter vacation about two weeks ago, they did not know if the…
By Orly Noy January 24, 2018
A man from the Jahalin tribe herds his sheep in his village near the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumin, West Bank, May 19, 2005. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
Israel issuing Palestinian building permits to further West Bank land grab
An increase in building permits for Palestinian structures in Area C of the West Bank is not what it seems. It is, in fact, part of the Israeli government’s process of concentrating Palestinians in order to make room for settlements to expand. By Alon Cohen-Lifshitz It’s the responsibility of anyone who wants to build a house to…
By +972 Magazine January 27, 2017
A woman of the al-Qian Bedouin tribe stands in front of a house in the unrecognized village of Um al-Hiram (photo: Yossi Gurvitz)
Bedouin village in Negev to be destroyed, Jewish settlement to be built on site
Despite being sent there by the state in the 50s, the residents of Umm al-Hiran face immediate evacuation and destruction of their homes, in order to make way for Hiran, a settlement for national-religious Jews.  Last month, I visited along with a group of other +972 bloggers the village of Umm al-Hiran, in the northeastern part of the…
By Noam Sheizaf October 2, 2012
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