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The Israeli government has asked Palestinians living in a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank to demolish their homes in the next eight days and leave.
Sunday's warning comes just weeks after Israel's Supreme Court rejected appeals against the demolition.
The unit of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, which oversees civil affairs in the West Bank, said in a statement: "Following a decision of the Supreme Court, the people of Khan al-Ahmar have today received a notice asking them to 2018.
"If you refuse, the authorities will apply the demolition orders in accordance with a court decision and the law".
Israel's plan to demolish the village, which is home to 180 people, and to move its inhabitants has been criticized by Palestinians and has sparked international condemnation.
Earlier this month, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain renewed their call for Israel not to demolish the village, warning of the consequences for the inhabitants and the prospects for the two-state solution.
"No one will leave, we will have to be forcibly evicted," village spokesman Eid Abu Khamis said. told Al Jazeera, adding that a meeting of residents would take place later on the issue.
"If we wanted to take these incentives, we would have taken them 30 years ago, the incentives continued to arrive but we all refused.
"We stay on our land, we will not leave only by force."
Yousef Abu Dahouk, a 37-year-old father of four, told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces had entered the village and carried heavy weapons to children near a school that should also be demolished.
"Israeli forces tried to enter the school but the activists stopped them, after which they went around the village, between the houses and explored the place, trying to find out how many There were activists there, and then they left. "
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| Israeli notice indicates that Palestinians must leave Khan al-Ahmar by 1 October [Ibrahim Husseini/Al Jazeera] |
Cut the West Bank in two
Khan al-Ahmar is located a few kilometers from Jerusalem between two large illegal Israeli settlements, Maale Adumim and Kfar Adumim, which the Israeli government wants to develop.
The withdrawal of the Bedouin village allows the Israeli government to effectively cut the West Bank in two.
The villagers are members of the Bedouin tribe of Jahalin, who was expelled from their lands in the Naqab Desert (Negev) by the Israeli army in the 1950s. They were moved twice more before they were released. To settle in Khan al-Ahmar, long before the illegal settlements around him.
The small community of 40 families lives in tents and huts in areas classified by the Oslo Accords in 1993 as Area C, which accounts for 60% of the West Bank and is subject to full Israeli administrative and security control.
The court's decision was largely based on the premise that the village had been built without Israeli authorization, which, according to the Palestinians, is impossible to obtain due to the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements reserved for Jews.
United Nations figures show that the Israeli authorities approved only 1.5% of all permit applications by Palestinians between 2010 and 2014.
In early July, Israeli bulldozers destroyed a number of tents and other structures in Khan al-Ahmar, causing clashes with local residents.
Ibrahim Husseini contributed to this report.
SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies
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