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<h1 class="title">Israel demolishes unrecognized al-Araqib for
139th time</h1>
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<div class="stamp">Jan. 31, 2019 - <font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=782399">http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=782399</a></font><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">NEGEV (Ma'an) -- </span><span
style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Israeli bulldozers demolished the unrecognized Bedouin
village of al-Araqib in the Negev desert in southern Israel
for the 139th time, on Thursday morning.</span><span
style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Villagers of al-Araqib reported that Israeli forces and
the "Yoav" unit from the Israeli Negev Development Authority
stormed the village, escorting bulldozers and vehicles that
carried out the demolition.<br>
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<div style=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Women, children,
and the elderly of the village, were evacuated and left
without shelter.</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"></span>
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<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
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vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto;
line-height: 22px; min-height: 3px; background-color:
rgb(255, 255, 255);">Three women, alongside head of the
village's popular committee, Ahmad Khalil Abu Mdeighem,
were detained by Israeli forces and released a few hours
after the demolition was carried out.</p>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color:
rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Israeli demolitions of
al-Araqib are carried out in attempts to force the
Bedouin population to relocate to government-zoned
townships.<br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Like the 34 other
Bedouin villages “unrecognized” by Israel, al-Araqib
does not receive any services from the Israeli
government and is constantly subjected to the threats of
expulsion and home demolition.<br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These
"unrecognized" 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.</span><span style="font-size:
14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
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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.<br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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.</span></div>
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