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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The government must present its plan to evacuate the Bedouin village built illegally on state-owned land by April 2.
PM Netanyahu says 38 illegal Arab outposts have been dismantled so far in 2023.
The residents of Khan al-Ahmar demand to be moved inside the Green Line, anywhere else, they fear the Palestinian Authority will be able to target them.
By Josh Hasten
A tour of the contested area reveals heated opinions from Jewish and Arab residents on the future of the designated construction corridor.
After severely criticizing Benjamin Netanyahu for his inaction on the removal of the illegal Arab outpost of Khan al-Ahmar, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is seeking to further postpone the evacuation, adopting the same line of the Netanyahu government.
The PA expelled the Bedouin from the Moon City area to build their vacation village.
“The Palestinian Authority considers us soldiers to defend the E1 areas and will not give up the outpost,” explained one of the family heads.
Residents claim that the Palestinian Authority is blocking any solution, in order to make Israel look bad on the international arena.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Bennett’s coalition partners, including Ayelet Shaked, Zeev Elkin, Avigdor Liberman, and Yoaz Handel, were also very loud with their criticism of Netanyahu’s policy, but are doing exactly what he did, and for the same reason – a fear of a diplomatic clash with Europe.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
After severely criticizing Benjamin Netanyahu for his inaction on the removal of the illegal Arab outpost of Khan al-Ahmar, Bennett is seeking to further postpone the evacuation, adopting the same line of the Netanyahu government.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
In 2018, the Israeli government announced its intention to complete the evacuation and relocation of the illegal outpost, the flagship of the Palestinian Authority’s systematic program of territorial dominance in Area C.
The Khan al Ahmar saga – more than a decade in the making – has been heard in 6 High Court of Justice petitions submitted by Regavim.
Supreme Court Justice Noam Solberg rejected Netanyahu’s request for an additional six-month continuance to submit a response in the Khan al Ahmar case, and treated the government to some particularly sharp criticism.
By JNi.Media
During the hearing, the squatters' attorneys made it clear that their clients were not willing to move too far from the current location of their shantytown, at most "a hundred or two hundred meters."
By JNi.Media
In the case of Khan al Ahmar, the High Court has displayed a disturbing "flexibility," extending a legal process which, by the Court's own admission, has been plagued by intolerable stalling.
By Naomi Kahn
The community’s traditional culture and clan-based lifestyle will be fully protected and insulated from outside influences in a location only four miles away that provides electricity, running water, a government-built school and many other basic modern “conveniences.”
The illegal encampment of Khan al Ahmar will be demolished in June, and the residents will be given free land in Jahalin West.
July 3, 2026 
