Israel on Sunday told residents of Khan Al Ahmar, the Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank lined up for demolition, to clear their houses by October 1.
Residents of Khan Al Ahmar, a cluster of tin and wood shacks built on a desert hillside beside an Israeli highway that runs from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea, said they would ignore the order.
Faisal Abu Dahuk said the military could remove them by force "but there is no other place to go and we refuse to be moved anywhere else."
Israel plans to demolish the village and relocate its 180 people - Bedouins who eke out a living by raising sheep and goats - to a site 12 kilometres away, near the Palestinian village of Abu Dis and adjacent to a landfill site.
A spokeswoman for Israel's military said no date had been set for the demolition should the houses remain after the October 1 deadline.
Israeli security forces on Sunday morning handed out letters telling residents to voluntarily take down the dwellings by October 1 or the authorities would enforce the demolition order.
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Israel's Supreme Court rejected petitions to prevent the move, siding with the authorities which say the village was built without the required permits. Palestinians say such documents are impossible to obtain.
Palestinians also say the demolition is part of an Israeli push to create an arc of settlements which would effectively cut off East Jerusalem from the West Bank, territories Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and which the Palestinians seek for an independent state.
Some of Darwish's last words
"They see their tomorrows slipping out of their reach. And though it seems to them that everything outside this reality is heaven, yet they do not want to go to that heaven. They stay, because they are afflicted with hope." - Mahmoud Darwish, to attendees of the Palestine Festival of Literature, 2008
His life in brief: Born in a village near Galilee, he lived in exile for most of his life and started writing poetry after high school. He was arrested several times by Israel for what were deemed to be inciteful poems. Most of his work focused on the love and yearning for his homeland, and he was regarded the Palestinian poet of resistance. Over the course of his life, he published more than 30 poetry collections and books of prose, with his work translated into more than 20 languages. Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers, most significantly Marcel Khalife. Darwish died on August 9, 2008 after undergoing heart surgery in the United States. He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour.
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