Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs occupied Palestinian territory COMMUNITIES AT RISK OF FORCIBLE TRANSFER SEPTEMBER 2014

KEY FACTS

� Around 7,000 Palestinian and herders, some 60% of them children, reside in 46 small residential areas, in in the central . � Over 70% of the residents are refugees, who were evicted from or fled their places of residence in southern in the early 1950’s. � Approximately 90% of the people depend on herding as their primary source of income. � Most of the families have pending demolition orders against their homes and over 85% lack connection to the electricity and water networks. � Two-thirds of the communities reported facing settler violence during the past three years. � Over 60% of the approximately 6,000 forcibly displaced since 2008 due to the demolition of their homes in Area C, on the grounds that they had no building permits, lived in Bedouin/herding communities. � More than 540,000 Israelis settlers live in West Bank settlements, which were built in contravention of international law; they receive preferential treatment in terms of the allocation of land, planning and provision of services.

1. Bedouin communities in the hills to the east of including the limited availability of grazing land at Jerusalem and in the central West Bank are at the designated sites, the relocation is expected to risk of forcible transfer due to a “relocation” plan undermine the traditional livelihoods and culture of advanced by the Israeli authorities. The authorities the communities, as was the case for 150 Bedouin have justified the plan claiming that the residents families who were relocated from this area in the lack title over the land and that the relocation will late 1990s. One of the sites is also located next to improve their living conditions. The residents, a refuse dump site, raising serious health concerns. however, have not been genuinely consulted about the plan; they firmly oppose this plan and insist 4. Some of the communities are currently located in on their right to return to their original homes and an area that has been allocated for the expansion lands in southern Israel. In the meantime, they have of Israeli settlements. This includes the E1 plan, requested protection and assistance in their current which entails the construction of thousands of new location, including adequate planning and permits settlement housing and commercial units, creating for their homes and livelihoods. a continuous built-up area between the Ma’ale Adummim settlement and Jerusalem. The affected 2. Various Israeli practices have created a coercive area is also planned to be surrounded by the environment, which functions as a “push factor”. Barrier. If implemented, these plans will undermine These practices include the restriction of access to Palestinian presence in the area, further disconnect grazing land and markets; the denial of access to East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank, and basic infrastructure; the rejection of applications for disrupt the territorial contiguity of the occupied building permits; and the demolition and threat of territory. demolition of homes, schools and animal shelters. The authorities have also largely failed to protect the 5. The UN Secretary-General has stated that the communities from intimidation and attacks by Israeli implementation of the proposed “relocation” settlers. would amount to individual and mass forcible transfers and forced evictions, prohibited under 3. The designated “relocation” sites are inadequate international humanitarian law and human rights and raise serious humanitarian concerns. They law.1 As an occupying power, Israel has an obligation include three new “townships” to be developed to protect the civilian population in the occupied on public (“state”) land that the Israeli authorities territory and administer it for the benefit of that allocated for this purpose in Area C. Some of the population. The destruction or confiscation of private planning schemes for the new “townships” have property, including homes, as well as the transfer of been recently deposited for public review, towards settlers into occupied territory, is also prohibited. their final approval. Due to a number of reasons,

1. Report by the UN Secretary General to the UN General Assembly, A/67/372, 14 September 2012, para. 37.

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