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        <h1 class="reader-title">Army Demolishes Al-Arakib Village For

          174Th Time</h1>

        <span>February 6, 2020</span></div>

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              <p>Israeli soldiers and police officers demolished,

                Thursday, the al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev,

                for the 174<sup>th</sup> consecutive time, and for the

                fourth time this year alone.</p>

              <p>Residents of al-Arakib stated that the soldiers and

                officers demolished and removed their tents and sheds,

                which were used to house them, and shelter them from the

                cold, amidst the stormy weather of the Negev.</p>

              <p>They added that the police recently abducted and

                imprisoned a local Sheikh and social figure, identified

                as Siyah at-Touri, in addition to several other

                villagers, after accusing them of “occupying state

                land.”</p>

              <p>It is worth mentioning that Israel started targeting

                the Bedouin village since the year 2000, in an attempt

                to displace and relocate them, as part of the so-called

                “Negev Development Plan,” which aims at transferring the

                Bedouin to build resorts and houses for Israeli

                settlers.</p>

              <p>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.</p>

              <p>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.</p>

              <p>Many 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.</p>

              <p>Now, more than 60 years later, the Bedouin villages

                have yet to be legally recognized by Israel and live

                under constant threat of demolition and forcible

                removal.</p>

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