The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Tuesday morning displaced many Palestinian families after demolishing their Palestinian homes and structures in the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar east of Jerusalem.
According to eyewitnesses bulldozers escorted by soldiers started in the morning to carry out large-scale demolitions in Khan al-Ahmar.
About 180 Palestinian citizens live in tents and crude homes in Khan al-Ahmar. The local residents hail from the Bedouin Jahalin tribe which was expelled from the Negev desert by Zionist gangs in 1952.
In a separate incident a horde of Jewish settlers on the same day placed prefabricated homes on Palestinian-owned land in the vicinity of the illegal settlement of Ibei Hanahal east of Bethlehem after bulldozing it.
Local sources said that the settlers had been bulldozing the area for about over two weeks.
