UN / ISRAEL BEDOUINS HUMAN RIGHTS

The United Nations said it is “deeply concerned at reports that the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al Ahmar-Abu al Helu is set to be demolished by the Israeli authorities” in the coming days. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:47
• Production Date: 3 July 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: FARHAN HAQ
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA; OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS; SETTLEMENT PLANNING
• Geographic Subject: ISRAEL
• MAMS Id: 2192768
• Parent Id: 2192768
• Alternate Title: unifeed180703d

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STORY: UN / ISRAEL BEDOUINS HUMAN RIGHTS
TRT: 0:47
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 03 JULY 2018, NEW YORK CITY

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1. Wide shot, exterior, UN Headquarters

03 JULY 2018, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, spokesperson coming to press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Farhan Haq, Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General:
“The Human Rights Office says that it is deeply concerned at reports that the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al Ahmar-Abu al Helu is set to be demolished by the Israeli authorities in the coming days. The community is home to 181 people - more than half of them children - and is one of the 46 Bedouin communities in the central West Bank that the UN views as being at high risk of forcible transfer due to an environment generated by Israeli practices and policies that coerces people and communities to move.”
4. Med shot, reporters
5. Wide shot, press room

Storyline

United Nations spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters in New York Tuesday (3 Jul) that the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is “deeply concerned at reports that the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al Ahmar-Abu al Helu is set to be demolished by the Israeli authorities in the coming days.”

The UN spokesperson also said the community is “one of the 46 Bedouin communities in the central West Bank that the UN views as being at high risk of forcible transfer due to an environment generated by Israeli practices and policies that coerces people and communities to move.”

The Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al Ahmar – Abu al Helu is located on the outskirts of East Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank and it is one of 18 communities located in or next to an area slated in part for the Israeli E1 settlement plan, aimed at creating a continuous built-up area between the Ma’ale Adummim settlement and East Jerusalem.

The community is home to 181 people - more than half of them children. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of the Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) the community’s structures are now at immediate risk of demolition by the Israeli authorities, including the school, initially built with donor support. The school serves some 170 students from the community itself and four surrounding ones. The proposed transfer seeks to move the rural livestock-dependent community to an urban site unsuitable for Bedouin livelihood, culture and traditions and is likely to increase their level of humanitarian need.