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<h1 class="article-title">Soldiers Destroy Khirbit Makhoul Village For
Fourth Time</h1>
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alt="author"> Thursday October 03, 2013 10:50<br>
<small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imemc.org/article/66210">http://www.imemc.org/article/66210</a></small></small><br>
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<blockquote class="article-intro">[Thursday October 3, 2013] Israeli
soldiers destroyed Khirbit Makhoul Bedouin village in the West Bank’s
Northern Plains area, for the fourth time in a row.</blockquote>
<p class="article">Local sources have reported that dozens of Israeli
soldiers invaded the village, approximately at 2:30 at dawn, and forced
the residents out of their sheds and tents, and demolished the
structures. <br>
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The attack comes two days after the residents rebuilt their structures,
and installed tents, after the army demolished them in a previous
attack. <br>
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Soldiers also drove one of their armored vehicles through a shed that
was installed just two days ago after the army destroyed the village
for the third time on Monday at dawn [September 30].<br>
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The tents that have been removed, and the structures, were donated by
international human rights organizations a few days ago.<br>
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Israel does not recognize dozens of small villages, Bedouin tribes, in
the Northern Plains areas of the West Bank, and near occupied East
Jerusalem, as well as near Hebron and other areas.<br>
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With no services, no recognition from the occupation, those villages
have been repeatedly demolished, and removed, and the residents are
frequently displaced due to Israel’s ongoing violations.<br>
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Bedouin villages in the Negev are also subject to such frequent attacks
and violations, as dozens of small villages have been uprooted and
demolished, some tribes have been displaced and their shelters removed
hundreds of times.<br>
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Hundreds of similar attacks targeted Bedouins in the Negev, who live in
villages unrecognized by Israel, and are subject to frequent
displacement and ongoing assaults.<br>
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Around 70,000 Arab Bedouin – whose presence in the Negev dates to the
seventh century – live in 35 villages that either predate the
establishment of the state of Israel in historic Palestine in 1948.<br>
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These villages are not recognized by Israel, and the inhabitants are
considered trespassers. Basic services have been withheld from these
villages, and thousands of houses have been demolished since 2011.<br>
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Palestinian Bedouins have faced decades of repression and forced
removal by Israeli authorities because of this refusal to recognize
their legitimate claim to continue to live on their ancestral land. </p>
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