At dawn on Tuesday, settlers seized a Bedouin community near Khan al-Ahmar, east of Jerusalem, and forced its residents to leave.

Activist Abu Imad Al-Jahalin said that a group of settlers stormed the Bir Al-Maskoub Bedouin community near Khan Al-Ahmar, seized tents and agricultural crops, and forced the residents of the community to leave.

He added that the residents of the community, which number seven families, are nomadic Bedouins, who had left some time ago for the west of Jerusalem, and when they returned to their tents, they were surprised by the presence of settlers there and prevented them from entering them.

Khan Al-Ahmar is surrounded by the settlements of Ma'ale Adumim and Kfar Adumim, and Israel seeks to expand them and implement the E1 settlement project, which eliminates the option of establishing a geographically contiguous Palestinian state. It will also swallow large parts of Area C extending over more than 60% of the area of the West Bank. .

According to data issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OCHA) in 2017, 46 Bedouin communities will be at risk of forcible transfer in the central West Bank.

26 of these communities are located in the Jerusalem Governorate, and are inhabited, according to the United Nations Office, by 4,856 Bedouins who face harsh living conditions in terms of basic services such as water and electricity, in addition to the difficulty of reaching educational and health centers.

The 13 Bedouin communities of Jerusalem that are located within the scope of the so-called “E1” colonial project will be on the evacuation schedule, in addition to 12 communities located adjacent to this huge project, which is part of Israel’s plan known as “Greater Jerusalem.”