[News] Israel demolishes homes in Bedouin village for 92nd time - Bulldozes cemetery

[Anti-Imperialist News]

  Israel demolishes homes in Bedouin village for 92nd time

Dec. 24, 2015
*http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769495*
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NEGEV (Ma’an) -- Israeli bulldozers on Thursday demolished homes in the 
Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev for the 92nd time, leaving 
several Palestinians homeless, locals said.

Palestinian local Ahmad Abu Mdeighem told Ma’an that Israeli police 
imposed a blockade around the village before carrying out the demolitions.

Israeli excavators just under a month ago demolished all housing 
structures in al-Araqib as well as the village cemetery, which was leveled.

Prior to the demolition, residents of al-Araqib had repeatedly fled to 
the village cemetery and lived there after Israeli authorities bulldozed 
their property, since they had been assured the cemetery would not be 
destroyed.

Saleem al-Araqib, a resident of the village, told Ma’an at the time that 
the demolition of houses and the cemetery would “not change our attitude 
toward defending our land.”

Al-Araqib is populated primarily by Palestinian Bedouins with Israeli 
citizenship and has been targeted repeatedly since 2010 for demolition 
by authorities.

Israel considers al-Araqib and most other Palestinian villages in the 
Negev illegal, while Bedouins say it is their ancestral land and that 
they have a right to live in the area.

Approximately 80,000 Bedouins living in Israel reside in villages that 
state refuses to recognize, and are under constant threat of 
displacement.Israeli policy regarding Palestinian Bedouins has been 
slammed by Human Rights Watch as completely disregarding international 
law that forbids discriminatory evictions
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