Israel razes Araqib village in Negev for 149th time running
Selasa, 6 Ogos 2019 11:20:53 PG
The Israeli authorities on Monday demolished all the crude
homes and tents in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Araqib in the Negev
desert for the 149th consecutive time, displacing its residents.
According to local sources, Israeli police forces and
employees from the Bedouin development authority, which is responsible for such
demolitions, stormed the village and forcibly removed the residents from their
homes before wreaking havoc on everything.
The police forces and the employees dismantled all the tents
before using their vehicles to pull them away.
The Israeli police recently summoned chief of the village
Sayyah Attouri along with his son and other villagers and interrogated them
after they staged a popular festival to support the Araqib residents’
steadfastness.
Al-Araqib is one of several Bedouin villages in the Negev
desert, which are "unrecognized" by Israel.
The demolition of al-Araqib and other villages in the Negev is a systematic Israeli policy aimed at expelling the native population from the Negev and transferring them to government-zoned areas to pave the way to expand and build settlements for Jewish communities.
Source: Palestinian Information Center