[News] Israel demolishes al-Araqib Bedouin village for 142nd time

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  Israel demolishes al-Araqib Bedouin village for 142nd time

April 4, 2019 - http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=783106
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NEGEV (Ma'an) -- Israeli bulldozers demolished the unrecognized Bedouin 
village of al-Araqib in the Negev desert in southern Israel for the 
142nd time, on Thursday.

Locals reported that Israeli bulldozers, escorted by Israeli police 
forces, demolished residential structures and tents of al-Araqib 
villagers, leaving women, children and the elderly without a shelter.

Villagers said that they insist on remaining in their village, adding 
that they will keep re-building their village.

The Israeli demolitions of al-Araqib are carried out in attempts to 
force the Bedouin population to relocate to government-zoned 
townships.Like the 34 other Bedouin villages “unrecognized” by Israel, 
al-Araqib does not receive any services from the Israeli government and 
is constantly subjected to the threats of expulsion and home demolition.

These "unrecognized" villages were established in the Negev soon after 
the 1948 Arab-Israeli war following the creation of the state of Israel, 
when an estimated 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their 
homes and made refugees.

Many of the Bedouins were forcibly transferred to the village sites 
during the 17-year period when Palestinians inside Israel were governed 
under Israeli military law, which ended shortly before Israel's military 
takeover of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in 1967.

Now more than 60 years later, the Bedouin villages have yet to be 
legally recognized by Israel and live under constant threats of 
demolition and forcible removal.
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