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<\/div>\nIsraeli forces demolished the entire Bedouin community of Khirbet Humsah in the northern Jordan Valley, leaving 41 Palestinian children homeless just as winter storms spread through the West Bank.<\/em><\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n As the world was engulfed in the unfolding US elections on November 3rd, Israel quietly demolished an entire Bedouin enclave in the northern Jordan Valley, leaving more than 70 Palestinians homeless just as temperatures started to drop in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n At around 11am on Tuesday morning, the residents of Khirbet Husna were shocked to see a caravan of Israeli military jeeps, accompanied by a number of bulldozers and excavators, heading down the dirt pathway to their village.<\/p>\n \u201cThe soldiers often come here to evacuate us when they have military training,\u201d Fatima Abu Awwad told\u00a0Mondoweiss<\/em>, as she sat amidst the rubble of what was her home just 24 hours earlier.<\/p>\n CHILDREN\u2019S TOYS LIE AMONG THE RUBBLE OF THE VILLAGE OF KHIRBET HUMSAH IN THE NORTHERN JORDAN VALLEY. 41 CHILDREN WERE DISPLACED AS A RESULT OF THE ISRAELI DEMOLITION. NOVEMBER 4TH, 2020 (YUMNA PATEL\/MONDOWEISS)<\/p>\n \u201cBut usually they give us a prior warning. This time, they came and told us to get out of our houses, they gave us just 10 minutes,\u201d she said, adding that the soldiers were accompanied by dozens of workers from Israel\u2019s Civil Administration, the agency responsible for enforcing things like home demolition in the West Bank.<\/p>\n After what felt like mere seconds, as Abu Awwad and her husband tried to empty their home of all the belongings they could, the Israeli bulldozers began demolishing everything around them, as what she described as hundreds of soldiers and Civil Administration workers surrounded them.<\/p>\n \u201cThey didn\u2019t leave anything untouched,\u201d Abu Awwad said. \u201cOur homes, our livestock pens, our bathrooms, our water tanks, solar panels, everything. They destroyed everything.\u201d<\/p>\n Just hours after Israeli forces concluded their demolition campaign in Khirbet Humsah, a cold front swept through the West Bank, leaving the families of the village scrambling to find any form of shelter.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was cold, windy, and rainy, and we had nowhere to go, nowhere to protect ourselves and our small children,\u201d she said, adding that the family were forced to sleep under makeshift plastic tents, on cold wet mattresses on the soaked soil below them.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like I\u2019m destroyed inside,\u201d Abu Awwad told\u00a0Mondoweiss<\/em>. \u201cLook around at what happened to us, how would you feel? We have nothing left.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018This is terrorism\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Khirbet Humsah is a Palestinian Bedouin community comprising of several tiny clusters of tents and shacks, sprawled across the al-Buqei\u2019a plains in the northern Jordan Valley. It\u2019s home to 11 Bedouin herding families, who have lived on the land for decades.<\/p>\n The families maintain a semi-nomadic way of life, relying on livestock and agriculture to sustain themselves and their families, who number 74 people, including 41 children.<\/p>\n A CHILD\u2019S CRIB AND MATTRESS WERE SALVAGED BY THE RESIDENTS OF KHIRBET HUMSAH, AFTER THEIR HOMES WERE DEMOLISHED BY ISRAELI FORCES. NOVEMBER 4TH, 2020 (YUMNA PATEL\/MONDOWEISS)<\/p>\n According to Israel human rights group B\u2019Tselem, in addition to 18 housing structures in the village, Israeli forces demolished 29 tents and sheds used as livestock enclosures, three storage sheds, nine tents used as kitchens, 10 portable toilets, 10 livestock pens, 23 water containers, two solar panels, and feeding and watering troughs for livestock, along with more than 30 tons of fodder for livestock, and confiscated a vehicle and two tractors belonging to three residents.<\/p>\n Several of the structures destroyed in the village, like the portable toilets and solar panels, were donated by the European Union and other foreign aid organizations.<\/p>\n THE REMNANTS OF AN EU FUNDED BATHROOM IN THE VILLAGE OF KHIRBET HUMSAH, WHICH WAS COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED BY ISRAELI FORCES ON NOVEMBER 3RD, 2020. (YUMNA PATEL, MONDOWEISS)<\/p>\n Palestinian commentators, like Ali Abunimah, have been vocal in their criticism of the EU\u2019s continued failure to take concrete action against Israel for the destruction of Palestinian homes and structures \u2014 many of which, particularly in Bedouin areas like Khirbet Humsah, are donated by the EU.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC01031-copy-1024x576.jpg\")
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