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Residents salvage furniture before demolishing their homes, A-Sir, Israel, June 16, 2026. (Oren Ziv)

Hundreds of Bedouin left homeless as Israel ramps up Naqab expulsions

Residents of two unrecognized Palestinian villages were forced to dismantle their own homes — the latest chapter in a decades-long cycle of displacement.

By Oren Ziv June 24, 2026

A Palestinian resident of An-Nabi Samwil, occupied West Bank, stands in front of the Tomb of Samuel, holding an old photo showing how the village looked before Israel demolished the Palestinians' houses in the vicinity in order to displace the residents and build a new luxury Jewish settlement, April 28, 2014. (Keren Manor/Activestills)

Israel destroyed Palestinian village for luxury settlement that was never built

Archives reveal Golda Meir's government expelled residents of An-Nabi Samwil in 1971 to house wealthy Israelis. The settlement was aborted, but the Palestinians remain dispossessed, meters from their original homes.

By Yuval Abraham August 30, 2022

All That's Left activists place backpacks outside Israel's Supreme Court to protest the decision to demolish the village of Khan al-Ahmar, including its eco-friendly school, which serves the local Bedouin population, Jerusalem, July 10, 2018. (Courtesy of All That's Left)

As Israel prepares to demolish Bedouin school, activists lay out backpacks for each student

As Israeli authorities prepare to demolish Khan al-Ahmar’s school, a group of activists lay backpacks outside Israel’s Supreme Court — one for each student who may soon find himself without a place to learn. A group of Israeli and foreign Jewish activists laid 174 backpacks outside Israel’s Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning as…

By Edo Konrad July 10, 2018

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A Bedouin girl from Umm al-Hiran takes photos at a demonstration against the destruction of the village, August 27, 2015. (photo: Michal Rotem)

The Bedouin children trying to stop bulldozers with their cameras

As the bulldozers start building the Jewish town of Hiran, the children of the Bedouin village Umm al-Hiran are joining the struggle to save their homes. By Michal Rotem The children of the unrecognized Bedouin village Umm al-Hiran started their summer vacation in an usual way. The future of the village in which they grew up…

By +972 Magazine September 6, 2015

Rapper Tamer Nafar performs during a cultural event in the unrecognized village of Dahmash on March 14, 2015. (photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Solidarity festival for unrecognized village in central Israel

Hundreds of people from across the country, including artists and politicians, converge in Dahmash for a show of solidarity with the unrecognized village whose fate will likely be determined by the High Court. It took us over an hour to find the cultural event in the unrecognized village Dahmash on Saturday. Aside from a dirt…

By Orly Noy March 16, 2015

Solar panels on one of the houses in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Sahali. (photo: Paul Karolyi)

Under siege: One Bedouin family’s struggle to live in Israel

In its refusal to make compromises on zoning restrictions for an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Galilee, Israel demonstrates that its preferred demographic balance is higher on the list of state priorities than the protection of the welfare of its citizens. By Paul Karolyi In the early 1950s, a Bedouin Arab named Atif Mohammad Sawa’ed…

By +972 Magazine December 14, 2012