[News] Israeli forces demolish homes of Palestinian village in Negev desert for 148th time
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Israeli forces demolish homes of Palestinian village in Negev desert
for 148th time
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Jerusalem - August 2, 2019
Israeli occupation forces have made hundreds of Bedouin Palestinians
homeless after demolishing their village in the Negev region for the
148th time, the Palestinian Information Center says.
Israeli authorities, it said, demolished on Thursday the crude homes and
tents in the Bedouin village of Araqib in the occupied territories,
displacing its residents.
Citing local activist Saleem Araqib, the report said that Israeli
forces, equipped with demolishing machinery, stormed the impoverished
village and forcibly removed the residents from their homes before
wreaking havoc on everything.
Israeli soldiers and employees from the Bedouin development authority,
which is responsible for such demolitions, destroyed homes and
structures with demolishing vehicles, tore apart tents with knives, and
plundered chairs, pillows, mattresses and other belongings and pieces of
furniture from the villagers.
Al-Araqib is one of several Bedouin villages in the Negev desert, which
are “unrecognized” by Israel.
The village, with about 220 residents, was initially demolished on July
27, 2010, but has since been rebuilt dozens of times by its residents
and activists.
The United Nations says the “vast majority” of the Palestinian
structures are destroyed or seized because Israeli policies make it
virtually impossible for Palestinians to obtain building permits.
Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes and structures have raised
alarm among diplomats and human rights groups over what they regard as
Tel Aviv’s continued violation of international law.
Back in March, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)
reported that Israel had occupied more than 85 percent or some 27,000
square kilometers of historical territories of Palestine in an
expropriation process which still continues unabated.
Over half a million Israeli settlers live in more than 230 settlements
built since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Built on the occupied land, the settlements are internationally
condemned as illegal.
Palestinians want the West Bank as part of their future independent
state with East Jerusalem al-Quds as its capital.
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