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<h1 class="reader-title">Israeli Troops Demolish Al-Arakib
Village for 188th Time <br>
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June 2, 2021</div>
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<p>The Israeli government on Tuesday demolished the
Bedouin village of Al-Arakib, Tuesday, for the 188th
consecutive time.</p>
<p>Israeli police forces and the “Yoav” unit of the
so-called “Negev Development Authority” government,
accompanied by military vehicles and armored bulldozers,
stormed the village of “Al-Araqib” and proceeded to
demolish the tents and homes of Palestinian citizens
there.</p>
<p>This is the seventh time that the occupation
authorities have demolished the modest tents of the
people of Al-Araqib during the current year 2021, and
the 188th time since the demolitions began, but the
people re-construct them every time.</p>
<p>The Israeli authorities continue to prosecute Al-Araqib
residents who refuse to compromise on the land. The
government sends troops to demolish the homes of the
impoverished Palestinian shepherds and farmers.</p>
<p>The troops demolish their homes and destroy their
crops, and impose penalties and fines on them under the
pretext of building without permits.</p>
<p>The Quds News Network describes the steadfastness of
the residents of the village of “Al-Araqib” as
“legendary”, as they rebuild tents and houses and
confront plans to uproot and displace them from their
land every time it happens.</p>
<p>Demolitions of Al-Araqib and other unrecognized
Palestinian villages continue on a regular basis under
the claims that these homes were built without a permit
on land owned by the Israeli state. But Israel has never
issued these indigenous residents the permits to live on
their own land, despite the fact that the Bedouin
community has been living there for far longer than the
state of Israel has existed.</p>
<p>The Israeli authorities’ state objective is to displace
the residents of Al-Araqib from their original lands,
paving the way for the land to be settled by Israelis.</p>
<p>Al-Araqib is a Palestinian village located to the north
of the city of Beersheba in the Negev desert (southern
Palestine). It was established for the first time during
the Ottoman rule. It is one of the 51 Arab villages in
the Negev that the Israeli government does not
recognize.</p>
<p>And the occupation authorities have worked since 1951
to expel its residents, with the aim of controlling
their lands, through extensive house demolitions, in an
effort to control the vast lands that are equivalent to
two-thirds of historic Palestine.</p>
<p>The village was completely demolished by Israeli
bulldozers on July 27, 2010; Israeli troops demolished
all its homes and displaced hundreds of its residents,
under the pretext of building without a permit.</p>
<p>The residents of the village built it again, to be
demolished again and again, the most recent demolition
being the 188th one that happened today. The tents that
the villagers had set up were demolished, instead of the
houses that were demolished in the past times.</p>
<p>The steadfastness of Al-Araqib became a symbol of the
battle of wills waged by the Palestinians of the
occupied interior, especially in the Negev, in order to
survive and preserve land and identity from the policies
of Judaization.</p>
<p>About 240,000 Palestinians live in the Negev desert,
half of whom live in villages and Bedouin camps, some of
which have been in place for hundreds of years.</p>
<p>The Israeli occupation authorities do not recognize
their ownership of the lands of these villages and
communities, refuse to provide them with basic services
such as water and electricity, and try by all means and
methods to push the Palestinian Arabs to despair and
frustration in order to uproot and displace them.</p>
<p>Article 17 of the United Nations <a
href="https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Universal
Declaration of Human Rights </a>states in section 1:
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as
in association with others; and in section 2: No one
shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.</p>
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