Israel’s high court of justice in Occupied Jerusalem will look into a petition submitted by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Committee asking for preventing the evacuation of the Bedouin hamlet of Khan al-Ahmar east of the holy city.
Coordinator of “Save Khan al-Ahmar” campaign Abdullah Abu Rahma said that the court would listen to the petition filed by the committee’s lawyer and could approve it or reject it.
The campaign of Save Khan al-Ahmar which was launched by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Committee had called on Palestinian citizens from all spectra to spend their night in the hamlet to express their solidarity with the villagers.
The residents of Khan al-Ahmar known as al-Jahhalin Bedouins are refugees from the Negev desert who have lived in this area of south Jerusalem since their displacement by the Israeli army in 1967.
Throughout the years Israel has refused to recognize al-Jahhalin Bedouin communities or grant them building permits.
