Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90
Foreground: Illegal Bedouin tent village on the road down to the Dead Sea. Background: The Shuafat "refugee camp" in Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered that the illegal Bedouin encampments pitched along Highway 1, leading from Jerusalem down to the Dead Sea, be dismantled, according to a YNet report.

Netanyahu instructed that the Bedouin residents be transferred to permanent housing in Jericho or Abu Dis that Israel has designated for them.

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