Israel’s ethnic cleansing continues

What Israel is doing to the Bedouins in Khan al-Ahmar is an act of ethnic cleansing; it’s part of Israel’s illegal policies against the Palestinians.

For years, Israel has been implementing a policy in the West Bank that is designed to make the residents leave their homes and displace them.

Israeli efforts to make life in Khan al-Ahmar so difficult that its residents leave of their own volition started when the nearby settlement of Kfar Adumim was built by Israel in the early 1980s.

Israel now wants the residents of Khan al-Ahmar removed from their homes; it is disdainful of their rights.

Long-suffering Palestinians have endured Israeli ruthlessness for 70 years without let-up. Things today are worse than ever under increasingly harsh apartheid conditions, including endless ethnic cleansing and the forceful removal of indigenous Palestinians from land Israel wants for exclusive Jewish development and use.

The Palestinians continue to be marginalised, oppressed and targeted by illegal Israeli occupation policies and its colonialist activities.

What is happening in Khan alAhmar is a breach of international humanitarian law and a war crime. Most countries consider settlements built by Israel on land it captured in the 1967 war as illegal and an obstacle to peace.