Urgent Action: Bedouin Community At Imminent Risk Of Explosion (Israel/OPT: UA 267.17)

The Israeli army has issued an expulsion order which will forcibly evict 58 Palestinian Bedouin families in the area of Jabal al-Baba, east of Jerusalem. The expulsion order has to be rescinded immediately.

1) TAKE ACTION
Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:

Calling on the Israeli authorities to immediately cancel the eviction order and any other plans that would forcibly transfer the Jabal al-Baba Bedouin community;
Calling on them to immediately stop all demolitions in the Jabal al-Baba Bedouin community and other vulnerable communities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), including in Area C and East Jerusalem, and transfer responsibility for planning and building policies and regulations in the OPT from the Israeli authorities to the local Palestinian communities;
Calling on them to immediately stop the construction of Israeli settlements and related infrastructure in the OPT as a first step towards removing Israeli civilians living in such settlements.

Contact these two officials by 18 January, 2018:

Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
Office of the Prime Minister
3 Kaplan St, PO Box 187
Kiryat Ben-Gurion
Jerusalem 91950, Israel
Email: [email protected]
Salutation: Dear Prime Minister

Ambassador Ron Dermer, Embassy of Israel
3514 International Drive NW, Washington DC 20008
T: 202.364.5500
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ambdermer
Twitter: @AmbDermer
Salutation: Dear Ambassador

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