Israeli Forces Raid Bedouins’ Camp

Israeli security forces ransacked a Bedouin encampment in the occupied West Bank in a bid to expel them, residents said. They said soldiers demolished shacks and animal barns, overturned water containers and dumped their food on the ground. “They kept telling us that we must move. We are not moving. We have nowhere to go,” one resident said. A Palestinian expert on settlements said the raid was part of Israeli army efforts to clear Bedouins from an area east of Jerusalem to expand Jewish settlements in the area. But an Israeli spokesman said the army wanted to move the Bedouins because they were camping near a firing range.