This is ROUTINE behavior for Israel. It happens ALL THE TIME to Palestinians in the West Bank and here, to Bedouins. This is ETHNIC CLEANSING and YOU (americans) are funding it through the massive amount of foreign aid the USA gives to Israel.
Here the claim is that these Bedouins, who have been in this, their homeland, for CENTURIES did not have proper building permits and thus must have their housing destroyed. Hmmm...and Israel was founded when? 1948? Hmmm....
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:58:28 GMT
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Israeli forces demolished several houses and evicted some 300 Bedouins from their village in the Negev desert. |
Hundreds of Israeli forces have attacked Bedouins living in the Negev desert, demolishing their village and leaving about 300 villagers homeless.
According to rights activists, more than 1,500 Israeli police forces arrived at the al-Araqib village shortly before dawn on Tuesday to bulldoze the entire area.
Israeli forces razed all houses and uprooted hundreds of olive trees belonging to the villagers, the activists who tried to prevent the demolishing told AFP.
Violence also broke out as Israeli police forces attacked the villagers and the activists who tried to stop the police from destroying the houses.
Several people were wounded and some others were arrested, activists said.
Israeli officials claimed that the homes had been built without legal permits.
Bedouins are predominantly desert-dwelling Arabs who have been living in the Negev desert for hundreds of years.
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According to rights activists, more than 1,500 Israeli police forces arrived at the al-Araqib village shortly before dawn on Tuesday to bulldoze the entire area.
Israeli forces razed all houses and uprooted hundreds of olive trees belonging to the villagers, the activists who tried to prevent the demolishing told AFP.
Violence also broke out as Israeli police forces attacked the villagers and the activists who tried to stop the police from destroying the houses.
Several people were wounded and some others were arrested, activists said.
Israeli officials claimed that the homes had been built without legal permits.
Bedouins are predominantly desert-dwelling Arabs who have been living in the Negev desert for hundreds of years.
AGB/CS/MMN
The following article is reposted in its entirety here from Mondoweiss for your education. The original post may be accessed HERE.
1000s of Israeli police said to be evacuating/erasing historical Bedouin village
"Thousands of police are in the Negev desert village of el-Araqib right now (5:30 a.m. in Israel), beginning a mass evacuation, demolition, and erasure of this historical Bedouin village," writes Yeela Raanan of the Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages (RCUV).
"If you have access to the media, please send them to this village as soon as possible! The village of el-Araqib is between Rahat and Beer Sheva, and in a location that the Goldberg commission deemed outside of the areas allowed for the Negev Arabs... an area designated only for Jews...
"The JNF (Jewish National Fund) is planting a forest on this village lands - to make sure that the Bedouin cannot live on their village lands or use them for agriculture.The villagers turned to the Israeli courts, as the JNF were planting this forest at the behest of the Israeli government, but against Israeli law...
"The people of el-Araqib won the court battle... but this morning it seems that the Government of Israel has started a war -- of the Government against its own citizens."
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