[News] Israel Demolishes Al-Arakib Village For The 215 Time

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Israel Demolishes Al-Arakib Village For The 215 Time
By IMEMC News - April 3, 2023
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On Monday morning, Israeli soldiers and border police officers invaded the
Al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev and demolished it for the fourth
time this year, and the 215th time since July 27, 2010,

The soldiers surrounded the village and stormed it before forcing the
families out of their dwellings and demolishing their residential tents,
sheds, and barns.

The demolition is the fourth this year alone, including when it was destroyed
on March 15
<https://imemc.org/article/israel-demolishes-al-arakib-village-for-the-214th-time/>;
 the village was destroyed 15 times in 2022 and 14 times in 2021.

The villagers keep reinstalling their tents, using wood, nylon, tin, and
other materials to shelter themselves from the summer heat and the winter
cold and remain determined to stay on their lands despite Israeli plans to
displace them.

Al-Arakib <https://imemc.org/?s=al-Arakib> is a Palestinian village located
to the north of the city of Beersheba in the Negev desert (southern
Palestine). It was established for the first time during Ottoman rule.

It is one of the 51 Arab villages in the Negev that the Israeli government
does not recognize, although they predate Israel.

The occupation authorities have worked since 1951 to expel its residents to
control their lands through extensive house demolitions and the vast lands
equivalent to two-thirds of historic Palestine.

Israeli bulldozers demolished the village on July 27, 2010; Israeli troops
demolished all its homes and displaced hundreds of its residents under the
pretext of building without a permit.

The residents of the village built it again, to be demolished, again and
again.

The steadfastness of Al-Araqib became a symbol of the battle of wills waged
by the Palestinians of the occupied interior, especially in the Negev, to
survive and preserve land and identity from the policies of Judaization.

About 240,000 Palestinians live in the Negev desert, half of whom live in
villages and Bedouin camps, some of which have been in place for hundreds
of years.

The Israeli occupation authorities do not recognize their ownership of the
lands of these villages and communities, refuse to provide them with basic
services such as water and electricity and try by all means and methods to
push the Palestinian Arabs to despair and frustration to uproot and
displace them.

Article 17 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
sates: ” 1. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in
association with
others. 2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
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