Palestinian activists build village to protest Bedouin’s displacement
Mohammad Hamayel
Press TV, Ramallah
Dozens of activists on Tuesday erected a new “protest village” in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem in protest of Israel's plans to displace the Bedouin in the E1 corridor. These protest villages follow the model of the original Bab Al-Shams village that was built 2 years ago in January 2013.
The protesters would build an encampment, declare it as a village, and stay in an attempt to keep Israel from expanding its own settlements.
This latest village was erected in protest of Israel's plans to drive Bedouin of the al-Jahalin tribe from their lands in order to connect the illegal settlement of Maale Adumim to Jerusalem.
Israeli settlement construction in the area of the village would divide the West Bank in two sections, making the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state, as envisioned in the two state solution, to be impossible.
The popular resistance movement had constructed many villages before on lands threatened by Israeli confiscation, and the Israeli military forces did not hesitate to repress these villages, and the activists who built them. The village of “the gate of Jerusalem” like those before it was given an eviction notice and destroyed last night on Tuesday.
Protecting the village was more than an attempt for the Palestinians to save lands from Israel’s confiscation; the village also serves as a reminder that they will return to it once again to claim it for an independent Palestine.
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