[News] Israel Demolishes Al-Araqib for 141st Time

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http://www.palestinechronicle.com/israel-demolishes-al-araqeeb-for-141st-time/ 



  Israel Demolishes Al-Araqib for 141st Time

March 7, 2019 <http://www.palestinechronicle.com/2019/03/>
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Israeli bulldozers demolished the unrecognized Bedouin village of 
Al-Araqeeb in the Negev desert in southern Israel for the 141st time, on 
Thursday.

Locals reported that Israeli police forces secured the way for 
demolition bulldozers, pointing out that women, children and the elderly 
of the village, were evacuated and left without shelter under the rain.

    Sheikh Sayah al-Turi, the head of al-Araqib, arrives at Israeli
    prison on Christmas Day for a 10-month sentence for "trespassing."
    Al-Araqib is not recognized by the state and has been demolished
    more than 100 times in the past several years. (Oren
    Ziv/ActiveStills) pic.twitter.com/0hRENVQ81D <https://t.co/0hRENVQ81D>

    — Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) January 8, 2019
    <https://twitter.com/AsaWinstanley/status/1082689133124993027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

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

Israeli bulldozers had demolished the village in early February.

The Israeli demolitions of al-Araqeeb 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-Araqeeb 
does not receive any services from the Israeli government and is 
constantly subjected to the threats of expulsion and home demolition.

    Israeli army bulldozers and bulldozers demolished the houses of the
    village of Al-Araqib, south of the country, and displaced their
    residents for the 141st time, despite the stormy and cold weather.
    https://t.co/uQqFZnOJLh

    — STJEPAN TOKIC (@6P592) March 7, 2019
    <https://twitter.com/6P592/status/1103638589915697154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

These 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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