The Palestinian Authority and Fatah Movement called for the widest possible flow towards the Bedouin Khan al-Ahmar, one day before an Israeli court’s decision on the fate of the area. On Tuesday, the Wall and Settlement Resistance Committee announced a state of alert until further notice in the Khan al-Ahmar village east of Jerusalem. The committee made the announcement a day before the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision regarding the appeal to either approve or reject the demolition of the village. Fatah Movement called for a permanent and intensive presence in the area, in anticipation of any decision by the Israeli occupation court. “The failure of the Occupation plans in Khan al-Ahmar and the gates of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is a failure of Israeli expansionist plans and a halt to its projects for a unified Jerusalem as the capital of the occupation state,” said Osama al-Qawasmi, a spokesman for the movement. “Jerusalem was and will remain the capital of the State of Palestine.” The Palestinians appealed for a halt to an Israeli decision to destroy Khan Al-Ahmar, and a number of Israeli Knesset members, on the other hand, sent a letter to the Supreme Court asking it not to surrender to Palestinian demands. On July 13, the Supreme Court issued a decision to freeze the demolition until August 15, but Palestinian lawyers appealed for entirely abolishing the demolition decision. Residents of Khan al-Ahmar arrived from the Negev desert in 1953. Since then, they lived in conditions that lacked the most basic necessities, until Israel decided to expel them ten years ago. Bedouins in the area have been engaging in a peaceful confrontation since 2009 against demolition orders. Some 200 Bedouins face the threat of being deported from their land, while hundreds of students from nearby communities have been prevented from taking advantage of the school built in the village years ago.