A/HRC/31/43 by Palestinian residents of Susiya were vandalized and damaged, allegedly by Israeli settlers. 53. The Israeli planning authorities have repeatedly rejected zoning and planning schemes submitted by the residents of the village of Susiya, which would allow the issuance of building permits on land that they own. On 4 May 2015, the Israeli High Court of Justice rejected the community’s request for an interim injunction freezing demolitions in the village, thereby rendering 28 families vulnerable to imminent evictions and displacement.32 In the course of legal proceedings before the High Court of Justice, the Israeli authorities further expressed their intention to “relocate” the community to a nearby site, adjacent to the Palestinian town of Yatta. 54. Over the summer of 2015, concerted efforts by the international community, including the United Nations and Member States, were successful in staving off Israeli demolition plans at the site. However, long-standing access restrictions to basic services and grazing land at Susiya, combined with systematic intimidation by Israeli settlers, has created a coercive environment, which raises concerns about forcible transfer in violation of international law.33 In a High Court of Justice hearing on 3 August, both sides agreed to postpone the discussion in order to allow time for a negotiated solution. A mediation process between the residents and the Israeli authorities is currently ongoing. Bedouin relocation plan – central West Bank, including the Jerusalem periphery (c) 55. During the reporting period, Israeli authorities advanced plans presented in April 2014 by Major-General Yoav Mordechai, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, for the “relocation” of some 46 Palestinian Bedouin communities in the Jerusalem periphery.34 These plans foresee the removal of Palestinian communities in and around strategic areas earmarked for Israeli settlement infrastructure throughout the central part of the West Bank, including the planned E1 settlement project. The project has long been opposed by the international community as an obstacle to the realization of the twoState solution.35 56. The transfer plans of Israel place the Bedouin communities, currently residing in rural locations throughout the central West Bank in Area C, at risk of forcible transfer to three urbanized townships planned by the Israeli Civil Administration in Al-Jabal, Nweima and Fasayil. The relocation sites are being developed with the expressed purpose of “regulating Bedouins”,36 finding a “solution to the population residing in the area of the Adumim Bloc – western road No. 1”37 and “settling permanently those Bedouin who are 32 33 34 35 36 37 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, “Susiya: a community at imminent risk of forced displacement”, fact sheet, June 2015. Ibid. On 27 April 2014, Major-General Yoav Mordecahi formally presented these plans to the Subcommittee on Judea and Samaria of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, chaired by Mordhay Yogev. The plans are outlined in a Powerpoint presentation entitled, “Infrastructure and Supervisory Units” referred to in the minutes of the Subcommittee meeting. Settlement construction plans in E1 would exacerbate the isolation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank and interrupt the territorial contiguity of the West Bank (see A/HRC/25/38). Powerpoint presentation of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, slide entitled, “Regulating Bedouins” from the presentation “COGAT takes steps to advance a number of plans to regulate the Bedouin population”. Powerpoint presentation of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, slide entitled, “Programmes in the area of Ma’ale Adumim-Abu Dis – for a solution to the population residing in the area of the Adumim Bloc – western Road No. 1: Western Jahalin – programme operative, 13