[News] Israel demolishes Bedouin home in unrecognized Negev village

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  Israel demolishes Bedouin home in unrecognized Negev village

Feb. 18, 2016
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BEERSHEBA (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces on Thursday demolished a home in the 
Bedouin village of Wadi al-Niam in the Negev, locals said.

Village resident Rafat abu Ayesh told Ma’an that the forces along with 
Israeli excavators closed the area surrounding the village before 
tearing down the home.

Residents added that Israeli excavators two days prior had destroyed 
agricultural crops belonging to the al-Farawna family in the Bedouin 
village of Shaqib al-Salam, also located in the Negev.

Shaqib al-Salam is one of a number of towns created by the Israeli 
government in the Negev in an effort to to permanently settle nomadic 
Bedouin communities that lived across the Negev prior to the 
establishment of Israel.

Wadi al-Niam where Thursday’s demolition was carried out is one of at 
least 35 Bedouin communities never recognized by Israel and as a result 
denied basic services and rights, despite being citizens of Israel.Tens 
of thousands of Bedouins living in the Negev face ongoing displacement. 
While a plan to forcibly resettle the Bedouin population -- the Prawer 
Plan -- was shelved in 2014, Israel’s Habayit Hayehudi party joined 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau’s coalition on the condition 
the plan was reinstated.

Israeli authorities last summer began plans to build a Jewish-only town 
on the land of the Negev village of Umm al-Hiran, in what Knesset member 
described as a racist move by the state.

While Bedouin villages are often targeted for demolition by Israeli 
authorities, demolitions since the start of 2106 have been largely 
focused on the occupied West Bank.

On Thursday, The Coordinator for Humanitarian and UN Development 
Activities for the occupied ‪‎Palestinian‬ territory, Robert Piper, 
called on Israel to hault all demolition orders in the occupied West Bank.

“The number of demolitions for just the first six weeks of 2016 is 
greatly alarming,” Piper said. “Over 400 Palestinians have been 
displaced from their homes – equivalent to over half the total number of 
Palestinians displaced in all of 2015.”
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