Bedouin families in the Jordan Valley village of Fasayal Al Wusta are under imminent threat from nine demolition orders issued by the Israeli Occupation Force.

The orders, which were decided by military court at the beginning of March, demanded that the families vacate their homes by the 9th and 10th of April. Now the date has passed the army could arrive with bulldozers at any time.

 

Rather than being able to defend their right to live on Palestinian land stolen by the Occupation, and normalised by the Oslo Accords, the Bedouin families were prevented from going to court because of their identity.

With a Palestinian identity card for the West Bank they are forbidden to cross the border and enter into Israel, and to apply for permission to attend the court is a costly and lengthy process.

Some of the demolitions were a reactivation of frozen orders handed out last year, whilst others were new.

Of the nine orders, eight are for family homes and the ninth is for an animal shelter used to house sheep.