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The school year opened on Monday at the school of tires Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, a month before the beginning of the school year in d. other Palestinian schools to protest Israel's plan to demolish the village.
The movement in the West Bank community was designed largely to thwart the evacuation of the village. After the opening ceremony, the children went to their clbadrooms, but there was only one teacher in a clbadroom – even though textbooks were being distributed.
The children soon began to return home for the day, no more than an hour and a half after the ceremony. They will not be back until the official start of the school year on September 1st.
The "School of Tires" serves Bedouin children from across the region and was built with the support of European non-governmental organizations. The school has elevated Khan al-Ahmar to the representative of all Bedouin villages in the Gush Adumim region near Jerusalem.
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In response to the decision to open the school year earlier, Israeli prosecutors asked the High Court of Justice to hold an urgent hearing on the petition filed by the villagers 10 days ago and that temporarily froze the demolition. but the court rejected the request.
The opening ceremony was attended by a delegation from the Palestinian Ministry of Education headed by Education Minister Sabri Saidam, who invited all Palestinians to come. Palestinian officials visit the site daily, accompanied by foreign diplomats, social activists and foreign delegations. On Saturday, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah visited.
The school year move is one of the measures that the Palestinian Authority has taken over the past two weeks to protest against the Israeli Civil Administration's plan of Expel the inhabitants of Khan al-Ahmar and demolish the structures.
Locals believe – as they did last year – that the state will hesitate to force them to move in the middle of a school year given the status of the school. 39 school and the support that she receives from Europeans.
But they may be wrong. In the past, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he would not hesitate to expel villagers in the middle of a school year, which could have important diplomatic implications for Israel. .
On Sunday, locals found that the dirt road leading to the village (which pbades through a tunnel that pbades under the main road) was blocked by an iron gate. This is the only access road for vehicles going to the village. The road was apparently blocked by police, who said the road was only for security forces.
"All access roads to Khan al-Ahmar are open and accessible without change," said police, apparently referring to pedestrian access through the surrounding hills.
On July 5, the villagers filed an application to the High Court after the Civil Administration refused to accept a detailed plan prepared by the residents to legalize the village in its current location. Judge Anat Baron issued a temporary injunction against the demolition.
In its July 10 response, the state asked the court to rescind the injunction, or at least limit it, and let the school be demolished before the start of the school year. This request has not received any response. On July 12, Baron J. ruled that the hearing on the petition would be held no later than August 15 and, on Monday, the lawyers were informed that the hearing would be held on August 1.
The State Attorney's Office therefore requested that an urgent hearing be held before the reopening of the school on Monday. But on Sunday morning Baron wrote in his decision, "I see no reason to change my decision of July 12, 2018, under which the petition will be decided in court no later than August 15, 2018."
Meanwhile, a new detailed master plan of the village was submitted to the Civil Administration, initiated by Bedouin residents and inhabitants of the village of Anata, on whose territory there are many structures from Khan al-Ahmar.
Lawyer Tawfiq Jabareen, head of the team that wrote the petition, told reporters that he had informed the director of the Civil Administration Planning Bureau that He was waiting for additional documents from the civil administration, in addition to the deeds that he had already submitted. He said he asked the civilian administration to schedule a master plan hearing.
Last week, villagers presented another petition to the High Court to prevent the state from expelling them from the site. The petition was submitted after it was understood that the roads prepared by the earthworks of the Civil Administration were not necessary to demolish the simple structures of the village; a bulldozer or two would suffice. Instead, the roads would allow for forced eviction, which would require large police and border police forces as well as many buses.
Judge Ofer Grosskopf issued a temporary injunction banning evacuation and set Monday the day the state was to respond.
At the place where the Bedouins are supposed to move after the expulsion, Al Jabal, a village in the Azariya region between the Abu Dis dump and a do-it-yourself shop for stolen vehicles, structures for clbadrooms are already in place. housing. Yet even when the site is ready, the state can not move the villagers before the hearing set by the High Court.
On Wednesday, a resident of the village, Sara Abu Dahouk, 19, will be released. She was arrested on July 4 during the dispersal of a demonstration in the village against the demolition plans.
Abu Dahouk was accused of badaulting a police officer and throwing a stone after one policeman violently pushed his aunt and two other people to the ground and handcuffed his uncle. Following a plea bargain between military prosecutors and her lawyer, Gaby Lasky, in which the charge of badault was dismissed and she admitted to throw a stone, she was sentenced in military court Sunday at 14 days in prison, including days in detention, and NIS 5,000 fine ($ 1,375)
Of the 10 others arrested at the demonstration, two were released within hours, three were released on bail of 1000 shekels after five days of detention, and five residents of the village, including Sara's father, were released on bail of 2500 shekels after six days of detention. No charges have been filed against them.
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