The general supervisor of the "Al-Baydar" Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, Attorney Hassan Malihat, confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces demolished 49 facilities, including dwellings and barns, in Bedouin communities scattered throughout the West Bank, including Jerusalem, in addition to notification of the demolition of dozens of other facilities, as well as more than a hundred Attack by the occupation forces and settlers, since the beginning of this year until now.

Malihat confirmed in an interview with Al-Quds.com that, in addition to the demolitions, the occupation forces delivered dozens of notices of demolition and eviction in those communities, and the residents were not spared from the attacks of the occupation forces and settlers, which resulted in the arrest and injury of many citizens, in addition to the most prominent event, which is the death of a young man. Haroun Rasmi Yusef Abu Aram (25 years old), succumbed to his injury two years ago, by live bullets from the occupation in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

Malihat pointed out that since the beginning of this year, settlers and the occupation forces have carried out more than 100 attacks and storming of Bedouin communities, which resulted in arrests, injuries, demolitions, demolition notices, confiscation and burning of belongings, theft and slaughter of sheep, pursuit of shepherds, digging in land, destroying crops, and expelling families under the pretext of military training. In the same period, settlers established 3 settlement outposts in these communities.

Malihat stressed that the occupation and the settlers aim, through these attacks and violations against the Bedouin communities, to tighten the screws on the Bedouins to push them to forcibly leave their land and homes, calling for the necessity of working to provide urgent international protection for the Bedouin communities in Palestine.

Malihat stressed that the Bedouins live in separate parts of the West Bank and Jerusalem, especially on the eastern heights of the West Bank, and are considered to be the original inhabitants of these areas, which are protected by international conventions, the rules of international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention regarding the protection of the civilian population in the occupied territories.