Ahmad Amara’s scientific contributions

This open access edited collection is the first book-length academic publication on the Palestinian Bedouins at risk of forced displacement in the Central West Bank and Greater Jerusalem area. At its core are two questions: firstly; what are the humanitarian vulnerabilities they face and how are they produced/constructed? And secondly, how does protracted impunity for international law violations drive humanitarian protection risks for them? It interweaves international law, community-based empirical research and interdisciplinary perspectives, to offer the broadest possible framework for understanding these complex and complicated questions. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

This article investigates the precarious position of Palestinian Bedouin communities of Eastern Jerusalem in the post-Oslo geopolitical and legal context of the battle for Palestine. The humanitarian vulnerabilities and precarious nature of life for these communities (and further afield) is the result of Israel’s on-going attempts to forcibly transfer Bedouin groups in areas slated for settlement expansion and annexation. The Israeli quest for a ‘Greater Jerusalem’ makes Bedouin in Eastern Jerusalem particularly at risk. Repeated land grabs driven by the Israeli settler-colonial project in Palestine have intensified post-Oslo. Lands inhabited by Bedouin communities in Eastern Jerusalem constitutes a new locus of power to resist attempts to erase Palestinians from the Greater Jerusalem area, including through international courts. Cet article analyse la position précaire des communautés bédouines palestiniennes de Jérusalem-Est dans le contexte géopolitique et juridique postérieur à la signature des accords d’Oslo. La vulnérabilité de ces populations et la situation humanitaire précaire dans laquelle elles se trouvent résultent d’une politique israélienne continue de déplacement forcé de ces populations résidant dans des zones prévues à l’expansion des colonies et à l’annexion. La quête israélienne d’établir un « Grand Jérusalem » rend les Bédouins de Jérusalem-Est particulièrement vulnérables. L’accaparement répété des terres, motivé par le projet colonial israélien en Palestine, s’est intensifié après les accords d’Oslo. Les terres habitées par les communautés bédouines de Jérusalem-Est constituent dès lors un nouveau lieu de pouvoir où s’expriment les résistances aux tentatives d’expulsion des Palestiniens de la zone du Grand Jérusalem, y compris par le biais des tribunaux internationaux.

This article investigates the precarious position of Palestinian Bedouin communities of Eastern Jerusalem in the post-Oslo geopolitical and legal context of the battle for Palestine. The humanitarian vulnerabilities and precarious nature of life for these communities (and further afield) is the result of Israel’s on-going attempts to forcibly transfer Bedouin groups in areas slated for settlement expansion and annexation. The Israeli quest for a ‘Greater Jerusalem’ makes Bedouin in Eastern Jerusalem particularly at risk. Repeated land grabs driven by the Israeli settler-colonial project in Palestine have intensified post-Oslo. Lands inhabited by Bedouin communities in Eastern Jerusalem constitutes a new locus of power to resist attempts to erase Palestinians from the Greater Jerusalem area, including through international courts.