Scuffles broke out on Wednesday between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters as authorities prepared to raze a Bedouin village in what rights groups have condemned as a bid to expand Jewish settlement. Protesters, including some waving Palestinian flags, tried to block a bulldozer and scuffled with police at Khan al-Ahmar on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem. Israeli rights group BTselem said nine people were arrested -- five from the village and four others, including the organization’s own head of field research. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported 35 people injured, with four taken to hospital. Around 180 Bedouin, raising sheep and goats, live in tin and wood shacks in Khan al-Ahmar. “I was born here and will not move anywhere else,” said Feisal Abu Dahok, 45. “If they destroy the village, we will build it again here or nearby.” Israeli authorities say the village and its school were built illegally, and in May the supreme court rejected a final appeal against its demolition. Britains minister of state for the Middle East, Alistair Burt, visited the village in May and called on the Israeli government to show restraint. He warned that any forced relocation "could constitute forcible transfer of people as far as the United Nations is concerned." The new site is adjacent to a landfill and rights advocates say that a forcible transfer of the residents would violate international law applying to occupied territory. At a news briefing in Geneva on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the UN human rights office expressed concern at reports of impending demolition. “For more than a decade people in the Khan al-Ahmar community ... have resisted efforts to move them to make way for settlement expansion,” the spokeswoman, Liz Throssell, said. She said “international humanitarian law prohibits the destruction or confiscation of private property by the occupying power”, a reference to Israel, which captured the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war. Most countries regard settlements Israel has built in the West Bank as illegal. Khan al-Ahmar is located east of Jerusalem near several major Israeli settlement blocs and close to a highway leading to the Dead Sea. Its residents belong to the Jahalin tribe of Bedouin who were expelled from southern Israel by the military in the 1950s. Activists are concerned continued Israeli settlement construction in the area could effectively divide the West Bank in two. Israel authorities say they have offered villagers an alternative site. In another Bedouin village in the same region, Abu Nuwar, Israel carried out a series of demolitions Wednesday on what it described as illegally built structures. BTselem said nine residential structures and three agricultural ones were demolished, leaving 62 people homeless.