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<h1 class="reader-title">Israeli plan to expel 36,000 Bedouins
from their villages in Negev desert</h1>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time">January 28, 2019<br>
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ALRAY, Bethlehem -- </span><span>Israeli Minister of
Agriculture and Development of the Negev, Uri Ariel,
has completed a massive plan to expel some 36,000
Bedouin Palestinians from their unrecognized villages,
according to the Israel Today Hebrew newspaper.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>The implementation of the plan, if
approved, is scheduled to start this year, and would
be completed within four years.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>The confiscated Bedouin areas are
estimated at 260,000 dunums, on which the Israeli
authorities will establish what they called national
projects, infrastructure and other “security”
measures, which are required to ‘transfer’ the
population to other villages, according to the
newspaper.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>On the ruins of the villages after
their displacement, the Israeli authorities will
expand the “Trans-Israel Highway” (Route 6), south of
Israel, to the town of Nabatim in the Naqab, an area
of 12,000 dunums, The Israeli authorities intend to
transfer them to Tel Sheva, Abu Talul and Umm Batin.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>According to the plan, the displacement
will begin this year, north of Route 31, and will last
for four years. Final displacement in 2021 will begin
with an annual budget increase, through intensified
law enforcement authorities, in reference to the
Israeli Police and the Ministry of Internal Security.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>The Israeli authorities will also
transfer 5,000 Arabs to the areas of Abu Talul, Abu
Qrinat and Wadi al-Naam, from the Israeli area of
Ramat Bekaa, with the aim of transferring a factory
for military industries from Israel to the Negev, The
Israeli authorities plan to displace them and
confiscate them.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>The villages do not appear on Israeli
official maps, and the Israeli authorities do not
provide them with basic services such as water and
electricity. The residents do not have addresses and
the authorities do not recognize their rights on the
land, and consider them “violators” who take over
“state lands.”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>The Bedouin Development Authority was
established in 1984 and controls the planning of
displacement projects in the Naqab and administers the
Israel Land Administration.</span></p>
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