Israeli occupation plans to evacuate and destroy Khan Al-Ahmar village in occupied Al-Quds
The Palestinians in the village of Khan Al-Ahmar, east of occupied Al-Quds, are facing forcible displacement due to the Israeli occupation’s new plan to evacuate the village in preparation for destroying it in a blatant violation of the International Law and the International Humanitarian Law.
The new plan comes within the formwork of the policy of displacement and ethnic cleansing pursued by the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories, according to the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlements.
In its report published on Saturday, the Bureau said that the International Criminal Court has affirmed that displacing the Palestinians is a war crime.
The report explained that hundreds of Palestinians have been living in the village of Khan Al-Ahmar after the Israeli occupation displaced them from their lands in Al-Naqab area in 1948.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has established a school in the village that accommodates 170 students from different places in the area, said the report.
It added that by their steadfastness, the locals in the village foiled a similar plan in 2018 and they continue to stress their rejection of any plan that aims at uprooting them from their land.
The report went on to say that the occupation has announced a plan to establish a new settlement outpost in the area of Bab Al-Khalil (Al-Khalil Gate), the second largest gates of the old city of Al-Quds, within the framework of a comprehensive scheme to judaize all the gates of the historical city.
According to the report, the occupation forces razed 50 dunums in Al-Fqeiqis area in the town of Dura in Al-Khalil, as well as another 50 dunums in the villages of Senerya in Qalqilia and Masha in Salfit with the aim of building more settlements.
Moreover, the report said that the Israeli settlers stormed into several West Bank villages under the protection of the occupation forces. The settlers prevented the farmers in the village of Zanouta, south of Al-Khalil, from cultivating their agricultural lands, and stormed into the villages of Saab Al-Butum and Al-Fakheit in Masafer Yatta area and the old city of Al-Khalil.
The settlers also stormed into the towns of Hawara, Sebastia and Roujeeb in Nablus and broke into the Palestinians’ houses and properties. They vandalized crops in 60 dunums in the town of Kafr Al-Deek in Salfit and uprooted 200 olive trees south of this town.
The settlers also forced shepherds to leave their pastures in Khillet Makhoul area in the Northern Jordan Valley.
Hamda Mustafa