Anata Bedouin Community - Jlac

A Story from the communityJerusalem LegalAid and HumanRights CenterRamallah OfficeMillennium Bldg., 6th fl.Al Irsal StreetRamallah- PalestineTel.: +972 2 298 7981Jerusalem OfficeKamal Building, 1st fl.14 Ibn Batoota StreetEast JerusalemTel.: +972 2 627 2982Salfit OfficeSalfeet, 17 StreetTel.: +970 9 251 7101Nablus OfficeNablus, Sufian StreetAl-Alul and Abu SalhaBld.Tel.: +970 9 2386550info@jlac.pshttp://www.facebook.com/JLAC67www.jlac.psJamileh, who lives with her fourchildren in a Bedouin communitythat is threatened with forceddisplacement, in the area of Anata,East Jerusalem is among the manyBedouins facing forceddisplacement. Jamileh is originallyfrom the Bedouin community in thearea of al-Kahn al-Ahmar, but shechose to live in Anata in order tosecure a decent life for her children,specifically as to have them accessto education. There are no schoolsin their area of the Khan al-Ahmarat that time. Despite being outsidethe Wall and quite a distance awayfrom it, the occupation forces’coercive policy has come to affectedJamileh and the entire community.The Relocation Plan, communicatedby the Civil Administration willserve to displace Jamileh’scommunity (in addition to tens ofother communities) to an area closeto the dump of the Jerusalemmunicipality in the village of AbuDees. This area, is not onlyunsanitary and lacking in theminimum level of services, but isAbout Our OrganizationThe Jerusalem Legal Aid andHuman Rights Center (JLAC) is aPalestinian non-governmentalorganization mandated withproviding pro-bono legal aid andconsultation in the defense ofhuman rights in the oPt. Morerecently, JLAC has coupled its legalaid with public interest cases, legalunfit to maintaining a livelihood inanimal husbandry. This “relocation”will serve to deprive these alreadymarginalized communities of theirmost basic right, that of living adignified life. In November of 2011,the Civil Administration issued ademolition order against Jamileh’smodest tent, which is alreadylacking in basic amenities. JLACadopted her case and brought itbefore the Israeli High Court.JLAC’s attorneys may succeed infreezing the demolition order for awhile, but the demolition may becarried out in the future. During thepreparation of this report, JLAClearned that the community inwhich Jamileh lives, as well as otherneighboring communities, receiveda new kind of notifications from theoccupation Civil Administration.Plans were communicated ofdeveloping an additional segment tothe Annexation Wall around the cityof Jerusalem, which will come topass through the lands which hercommunity inhabits.reform, community awareness, andadvocacy, among otherinterventions. Our objectives aretwo-fold: (1) to reduce thesuffering and improve the lives ofvictims of human rights violations,and (2) to reform public policiesand laws in line with human rightsand good governance practices.