The Palm Beach Post · 6 May 2022
CP-2022-019
Israel upholds expulsion order against West Bank hamlets
Human rights groups allege policies amount to apartheid
Joseph Krauss, Associated Press, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld a long-standing expulsion order against eight Palestinian hamlets in the occupied West Bank, potentially leaving at least 1,000 people homeless, an Israeli rights group representing the villagers said Thursday. The verdict… marks the end of a more than two-decade legal struggle by Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta region of the southern West Bank to maintain communities they say go back decades. ‘Without warning in the middle of the night, the Israeli High Court of Justice published a verdict with unprecedented consequences,’ the Association for Civil Rights in Israel… said in a statement. ‘The High Court has officially authorized leaving entire families, with their children and their elderly, without a roof over their heads’… ‘The occupation court just decided: My community will be destroyed,’ tweeted Basel Adra, a prominent activist from the area. ‘The army can now place us on trucks, 2,400 people, and expel us from our ancient villages, one by one.’… Three major human rights groups have said Israel’s policies, particularly in the West Bank, amount to apartheid, allegations Israel rejects as an attack on its very legitimacy. One of those groups, the Israeli organization B’Tselem, said that in the Masafer Yatta ruling the justices ‘once again fulfilled their role in Israel’s regime of Jewish supremacy and paved the way for the crime of forcible transfer to be committed.’”
Context added by this archive
The word apartheid in a Florida deck, the phrase Jewish supremacy in the body, and forcible transfer as a named crime, all attributed to Israeli organizations. The page shares its lower half with an advertisement for Rolex servicing in Boca Raton.
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"Israel upholds expulsion order against West Bank hamlets," The Palm Beach Post, 6 May 2022. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2022-019. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2022-019
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