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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israel Demolishes Al-Arakib Village For The 215 Time<br></h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">By IMEMC News - April 3, 2023<br></div>
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<img src="cid:ii_lg10kxrk0" alt="image.png" width="380" height="322"><br><p>On Monday morning, Israeli soldiers and border police
officers invaded the Al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev and
demolished it for the fourth time this year, and the 215<sup>th</sup> time since July 27, 2010,</p>
<p>The soldiers surrounded the village and stormed it before forcing the
families out of their dwellings and demolishing their residential
tents, sheds, and barns.</p>
<p>The demolition is the fourth this year alone, including when it was <a href="https://imemc.org/article/israel-demolishes-al-arakib-village-for-the-214th-time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">destroyed on March 15</a>; the village was destroyed 15 times in 2022 and 14 times in 2021.</p>
<p>The villagers keep reinstalling their tents, using wood, nylon, tin,
and other materials to shelter themselves from the summer heat and the
winter cold and remain determined to stay on their lands despite Israeli
plans to displace them.</p>
<p><a href="https://imemc.org/?s=al-Arakib" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al-Arakib</a> 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 Ottoman rule.</p>
<p>It is one of the 51 Arab villages in the Negev that the Israeli government does not recognize, although they predate Israel.</p>
<p>The occupation authorities have worked since 1951 to expel its
residents to control their lands through extensive house demolitions and
the vast lands equivalent to two-thirds of historic Palestine.</p>
<p>Israeli bulldozers demolished the village 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.</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, 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 to
uproot and displace them.</p>
<p>Article 17 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human
Rights sates: ” 1. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well
as in association with<br>
others. 2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.</p>
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