Tuesday 29 October 2013

West Bank Colony expansion

colony -presssolidarity.net
The Israeli housing authority is to give the go-ahead for colony expansion this week - and this is reportedly linked to the release of Palestinian prisoners.
http://www.imemc.org/article/66304


Saturday 26 October 2013

More expulsions of Bedouins ; Nakba historians work overtime

As a last-ditch attempt begins to record the experience of the Nakba Generation (by Joe Catron in Electronic Intifada):
 <http://electronicintifada.net/content/gaza-researchers-determined-record-nakba-generation-time-runs-out/12872>



- while all still live, the drive goes on, as below.

Special police unit expels Bedouins *<http://www.ynetnews
.com/articles/0,7340,L-4445428,00.html>
Ynet 25 Oct by Ilana Curiel — Yoav Unit set up ahead of expected Knesset
approval of Bedouin resettlement bill; officers already razing illegal
homes in Negev. Adalah: Unfortunately, Bedouins are viewed as security risk,
demographic problem — “Large protests, stone-throwing and damage to
infrastructure are possible scenarios, but no one wants to get to that
point. The trick is to prevent rioting. If we do not – then we have
failed,” said the commander of a special Israel Police unit in charge of
the regulation of Bedouin
<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4443083,00.html>settlement
in the
Negev <http://www.ynetnews
.com/articles/0,7340,L-4297868,00.html>
including the evacuation of illegal homes. The Yoav Unit was set up ahead
of the expected approval by the Knesset of the Prawer Bill, which is intended
to expel nearly 30,000 Bedouin to officially recognized communities in
the Negev region.