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<h1 class="reader-title">Israel Demolishes Al-Araqib for 141st
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href="http://www.palestinechronicle.com/2019/03/">March
7, 2019</a></span></div>
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<p><span>Israeli bulldozers demolished the unrecognized
Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb in the Negev desert in
southern Israel for the 141st time, on Thursday.</span></p>
<p><span>Locals reported that Israeli police forces
secured the way for demolition bulldozers, pointing
out that women, children and the elderly of the
village, were evacuated and left without shelter under
the rain.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Sheikh Sayah al-Turi, the head of
al-Araqib, arrives at Israeli prison on Christmas Day
for a 10-month sentence for "trespassing." Al-Araqib
is not recognized by the state and has been demolished
more than 100 times in the past several years. (Oren
Ziv/ActiveStills) <a href="https://t.co/0hRENVQ81D">pic.twitter.com/0hRENVQ81D</a></p>
<p>— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) <a
href="https://twitter.com/AsaWinstanley/status/1082689133124993027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January
8, 2019</a></p>
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<p><span>Villagers said that they insist on remaining in
their village, adding that they will keep re-building
their village.</span></p>
<p><span>Israeli bulldozers had demolished the village in
early February.</span></p>
<p><span>The Israeli demolitions of al-Araqeeb are carried
out in attempts to force the Bedouin population to
relocate to government-zoned townships.</span></p>
<p><span>Like the 34 other Bedouin villages “unrecognized”
by Israel, al-Araqeeb does not receive any services
from the Israeli government and is constantly
subjected to the threats of expulsion and home
demolition.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Israeli army bulldozers and
bulldozers demolished the houses of the village of
Al-Araqib, south of the country, and displaced their
residents for the 141st time, despite the stormy and
cold weather. <a href="https://t.co/uQqFZnOJLh">https://t.co/uQqFZnOJLh</a></p>
<p>— STJEPAN TOKIC (@6P592) <a
href="https://twitter.com/6P592/status/1103638589915697154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March
7, 2019</a></p>
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<p><span>These 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></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>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></p>
<p>(<em>Ma’an, PC, Social Media</em>)</p>
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