RAMALLAH – The Israeli forces handed demolition warrants to thirty Palestinian families near occupied Jerusalem warning that their structures to be demolished, a Palestinian source said. Salim Abu Dahouk, the head of the Bedouins society in Jerusalem area, said that the officers of Israeli the Civil Administration, a military department responsible for the coordination of civil affairs in the West Bank, arrived at Arab Al-Jahalin area near the town of Al-Aizariyah, to the east of Jerusalem and handed them the warrants saying they were build without the needed building permits. Abu Dahouk said that the Civil Administration ordered the residents to leave the area by tomorrow, Sunday. He added that the structures include homes, 120 sheep barns, and 2 kindergartens. The official said that the 200 members of the Arab Al-Jahalin Bedouins, including elderly men and children, live in the area. The official said that the Israeli move is part of Israel's efforts to evict the Jahalin Bedouins from the area. Abu Dahouk said that existence of the Bedouins in the area prevented the Israeli authorities from confiscating Palestinians' lands to expand the Jewish settlements of Keidar and Ma'aleh Adumim to create contiguity of construction for Jews up to Jerusalem. The Israeli daily Haaretz said in September 2012 that the Israeli military authorities will forcefully relocate some 27,000 Bedouin who live in the West Bank, and mostly in Area C. The Israeli daily said that the Bedouins will be relocated to other area in the West Bank as part of the Israeli government plans to expand the Jewish settlements. The report said that the forced relocation of the Bedouin is expected to take three to six years. According to the Oslo Accords, Area A is under Palestinian administrative and security control, Area B under Palestinian administrative control but under Israeli security one, the Area C is under full Israeli control. Area C, which today constitutes about 60 percent of West Bank land, is a geographic area created in negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1995. The destruction of villages and the expulsion of villagers has been an integral part of the Zionist project since 1948. In April 2008, the Israeli High Court of Justice issued a decision calling for the destruction of al-Aqaba village, located on the slope of the Jordan valley, and the transfer of its 300 inhabitants. The same policy was also carried out against vulnerable communities; the Jahalin and other groups of Bedouin as well as small villages in the Jordan Valley. Expulsions are followed by the expropriation of the land for the expansion of Jewish settlement. Under heavy US pressure and following intense shuttle diplomacy by US Secretary of State John Kerry, Israel and the Palestinians resumed peace talks in July after a three-year hiatus, agreeing to a nine-month timeline set to expire in March 2014. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met several times since then in an attempt to solve the final status issues; Jerusalem, refugees, boundaries, settlements and security. Reports have mounted that that two sides have reached an impasse.
