Israel’s High Court of Justice temporarily blocked the eviction of a Bedouin tribe from lands slated for development by the settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim, located outside Jerusalem. An attorney for the Bedouin said the court would issue its final order after their case goes before a military committee. The Bedouin have maintained that an alternate site offered them is unfit for human habitation.
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