The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) notified on Sunday the demolition and evacuation of about 40 Palestinian Bedouin facilities east of occupied Jerusalem.
Jamil Hamadein told al-Quds Press news agency that a number of military vehicles as well as crews from the Israeli “Civil Administration” broke into Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin village in the early morning hours and announced it a closed military zone.
Hamadein said that the Civil Administration crews handed the Palestinian families living in the village 40 demolition notices for residential facilities sheep barns a school and a mosque under the pretext of being unlicensed.
For its part the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education warned of demolishing the school of Khan al-Ahmar which serves a number of Bedouin communities in the outskirts of occupied Jerusalem.
The Minister of Education and Higher Education Sabri Saydam said in a press release issued by the ministry that IOA officials broke into the school threatened to demolish it or remove some of its rooms and blocked entry of teachers and students. He added that this procedure falls in line with a series of systematic and regular attacks against the school.
Saydam called on all international institutions and organizations to “immediately intervene to stop these inhumane practices protect the educational process ensure the students’ right of safe education and put a limit to the Israeli racist policies and arbitrary decisions.”
He stressed that the Palestinian children’s right of education is stronger than the Israeli tyranny adding “We will maintain the educational process and our students will learn in caravans tents and under trees. Nations of the free world and international institutions must support them to get this right.”
The IOA seeks to displace dozens of Palestinian families from the Bedouin communities east of occupied Jerusalem in a prelude to expand the Israeli settlements in the region especially Ma’ale Adumim which is built on the lands of al-Eizariya and Abu Dis towns.
