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<h1 class="article-title">1,000 Palestinian Homes Demolished in
Negev Per Year</h1>
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<span class="article-detail"><img class="icon"
src="cid:part1.02040509.06070208@freedomarchives.org"
alt="author"> Friday June 26, 2015 04:55</span><span
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src="cid:part2.04010902.00070304@freedomarchives.org"
alt="author"> by IMEMC News & Agencies</span></span> <br>
<b><small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imemc.org/article/72062">http://www.imemc.org/article/72062</a></small></small></b><br>
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<blockquote class="article-intro">The Israeli Interior Ministry and
Land Administration Agency, in cooperation with the Regavim NGO
and the Jewish National Fund (JNF), have been demolishing 1,000
Arab homes in Al-Naqab every year, under the pretext that they
were built without permits.</blockquote>
Days of Palestine reports that this has been revealed by Amichai
Yogev, the southern region director of Regavim, which was founded in
2006 in order to confiscate Palestinian land and build illegal
Jewish only settlements in the occupied West Bank and Al-Naqab.<br>
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In an interview with Jewish Voice, Yogev said that there are 220,000
Arabs in Al-Naqab today and that they are living on 13,000 km2 of
land.<br>
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According to estimates, there are about 70,000 unlicensed homes in
the “recognised” and “unrecognised” towns and villages.<br>
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This means that these homes are at risk of being demolished at any
moment, according to Regavim’s way of thinking.<br>
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Yogev also claimed that the Israeli NGO is frustrated by the current
situation, as the Palestinian residents in Al-Naqab build
2,000-3,000 homes a year in the unrecognised villages and
gatherings.<br>
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He added that, despite their aggressive nature, the demolitions have
less of an impact on the reality of the demographic spread that the
Israeli establishment is seeking to reduce by means of these
campaigns.<br>
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Asked what a village needs in order to be classified as
“unrecognised”, Yogev said that all the villages located in the
Beersheba-Arad-Yeruham triangle are “illegal”; therefore, they may
be destroyed and their residents expelled.<br>
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The indigenous Palestinian residents in the region describe Regavim
as a racist organisation. They say that most of its inspectors, who
stick demolition notices on their homes, working with the so-called
Israeli Land Administration Agency, are settlers living in
settlements in the Negev.
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