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When we were in Khan al-Ahmar (https://cartes.app/#14.96/31.80777/35.33651/15/40) last week, we spoke with it’s spokesperson, Eid, who told us about the community’s fears right now.
Eid told us that he’s been living in the area since before 1967 and that this is his home, along with that of 45 families. “They’ve tried to expel us from here many times, including in 2018, and today Smotrich is trying to expel us again. But this time it’s very dangerous, not just because of the political situation here; it’s also dangerous because of the political situation all over the world,” he said.
The residents of Khan al-Ahmar are Palestinians who were uprooted from areas that became part of Israel in 1948, and who later, in the 1960s, settled east of Jerusalem, when the region was under Jordan’s control.
In 1967, after Israel occupied the West Bank, following governments didn’t recognize Khan al-Ahmar or give it building permits, leaving it vulnerable to threats of demolition and expulsion.
Eid noted how new settlements next to the village are granted water, electricity, and roads, while his own community, despite living on the land for generations, has been slated for expulsion.
“The school building here, which I built out of mud and wheels, has a demolition order on it while just two kilometers [1.2 miles] away they’re building a big university for the settlers.
That is legal but here it’s not legal.”