Israel

(asked on 16th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Israeli government to stop the demolition of Umm al-Hiran.


Answered by
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Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 23rd March 2015

Officials from our Embassy in Tel Aviv continue to follow the case of Um Il Hiran closely. The Adalah Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, who wrote the report ‘Nomads Against their Will’, issued in 2011, have briefed us on the legal updates since then. We understand the hardships facing the Bedouins of Um il Hiran and continue to study the situation in order to inform any future lobbying.

Officials have also been in contact with several other organisations that work within the Bedouin community, such as Itach-Maaki and the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation – Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development, to evaluate the best sort of support we can offer the Bedouin community in the Naqab/Negev.

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