Two-decade court battle over West Bank area nears end

KHIRBET AL-MAJAZ, PALESTINE: Khirbet Al-Majaz, a patch of desert at the end of a long, dusty trail in the West Bank, may not look like an area at the center of a two-decade court battle.

But after years of legal wrangling, the Palestinian Bedouins perched there on a rocky hill may be facing final expulsion if Israel’s

"Declaring the area a firing zone was the excuse. Cleansing the territory of Palestinians is the goal."