Israel is currently considering whether or not to follow through on plans to forcibly uproot dozens of Bedouin families from their homes in the West Bank village of Khan al-Ahmar. The IDF plans to relocate these people to a village located next to a garbage landfill nearby. The structures, including a school built with the help of foreign aid, will then be razed to the ground.
Why is Israel doing this? They say it is because the village violates zoning laws.
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If that sounds like a flimsy justification for relocating a whole village against its will, you'd be right. In the past, when similar issues have arisen, Israeli courts have resolved the issue by retroactively legalizing a settlement's zoning. However, this is typically a privilege granted to Jewish settlements illegally established in the West Bank.
Right now, Israel's High Court of Justice has put a temporary halt on these plans while it considers whether to grant retroactive zoning permits.
What Israel proposes to do is nothing short of a major human rights violation and a war crime – per international law, relocating a population (especially one in an occupied territory) against their will is gravely illegal.
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