RAMALLAH, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian Authority said on Monday that they will oppose the ruling of Israel's top court in favor of the demolition of a Bedouin community at international courts.
"Palestinians have lost faith in Israeli courts after their highest body, the High Court, ruled in favor of the demolition that would allow Israel to displace Palestinians and build a Jewish settlement in their location," head of the Palestinian Authority Wall and Settlements Colonization Resistance Committee Walid Assaf told the official Palestinian radio station Voice of Palestine.
He said that the committee will not appeal at Israeli courts anymore because they are "a tool of the occupation to legalize theft of Palestinian land."
The Israeli High Court last week rejected an appeal by the residents of Al-Khan Al-Ahmar Bedouin community located east of Jerusalem, and ruled in favor of the demolition of the community after evicting its residents within one week.
The community in Al-Khan Al-Ahmar is one of the 46 Bedouin communities in central West Bank that the UN considers at risk of forcible transfer.
Over 200 homes and community structures are slated for demolition in the area, where nearly 1,400 Palestinians reside. The area suffers a lack of basic services and infrastructure, such as a power grid, a sewage system and proper roads.
The area has the only school for the Bedouin communities, a mosque and a healthcare unit as well as several homes that are all at risk of demolition by Israel.
Residents said they are offered no alternative or shelters to stay.
