RAMALLAH, West Bank — For years, Umm Mohamad, from the Abu Nawar Bedouin compound north of occupied Jerusalem, has been trying to find a house for her son Walid so he can get married and settle in the area where she lives. Her efforts have not paid off, though, as the Israeli occupation forces refuse to allow them to build a new house, not even a tent.

The house Umm Mohamad and her sons are hoping to get is only a tent, but the plan is far-fetched as Israel is trying to expel them from their land to another location that was built to accommodate Bedouin and other communities. “Occasionally, a military occupation force raids the place, counts the houses and people and destroys any new building immediately,” she told Al-Monitor.

Another resident, Umm Khaled, and her family — made up of her husband and eight children and grandchildren — are part of the 700 Bedouin living in the area facing the Ma’ale Adumim settlement — the largest in the West Bank, located in the east of Al-Eizariya in the Abu Nawar compound.

Israel issued a May 14 decision to expel the population to a region in the north of Al-Eizariya numbering 46 settlements of Bedouin groups from the highlands of Jerusalem.