Israel sets Oct deadline to leave Bedouin encampment in West Bank

KHAN AL-AHMAR, West Bank – Israel on Sunday told residents of Khan al-Ahmar, a Bedouin encampment in a West Bank slated for demolition, to transparent their houses by Oct. 1.

Khan al-Ahmar consists of tin and timber shacks built on a dried bank beside an Israeli highway that runs from Jerusalem to a Dead Sea.

Israel skeleton to explode a encampment and immigrate a 180 residents – Bedouins who scratch a vital by lifting sheep and goats – to a site 12 kilometers (7 miles) away, nearby a Palestinian encampment of Abu Dis and adjacent to a landfill site.

The pierce has drawn critique from Palestinians and some European states, who bring a impact on a encampment and prospects for peace.

A mouthpiece for Israel’s troops relationship group with a Palestinians pronounced no date had been set for dispersion should a houses sojourn after a deadline.

Israeli confidence army on Sunday morning handed out letters revelation residents to willingly take down a buildings by Oct. 1 or Israeli authorities would make a dispersion orders.

“We will not willingly leave a place,” pronounced encampment proprietor Faisal Abu Dahuk. “The function army that have an army and weapons can leave us by force, though there is no other place to go and we exclude to be changed anywhere else.”

Israel’s Supreme Court has deserted petitions to forestall a move, siding with a authorities that contend a encampment was built but a compulsory permits. Palestinians contend such papers are unfit to obtain.

Palestinians contend a dispersion is partial of an Israeli pull to emanate an arc of settlements that would effectively cut off East Jerusalem from a West Bank.

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