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‘Total poverty’: Bedouins in Israel struggle to get by under pandemic
The coronavirus crisis has worsened years of government neglect of Bedouins in the Naqab, forcing a once self-sufficient society into deeper destitution.
By
Suha Arraf
July 21, 2020
‘Arab students will pay the price’: Pandemic widens Israel’s education gaps
Lacking basic services due to state discrimination, Bedouin students in the Naqab/Negev must be equipped for online schooling, rights groups demand.
By
Oren Ziv
April 7, 2020
If pandemic hits, unrecognized Bedouin villages could ‘become like northern Italy’
Denied basic services, the Naqab's unrecognized villages are not equipped to deal with the coronavirus — and the Israeli government is not stepping in.
By
Oren Ziv
March 29, 2020
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Israel steps up campaign against Bedouin village it demolished 173 times
Israeli forces have demolished the village of Al-Araqib 173 times. Now, in an effort to push the residents off their land, Israel is stepping up its harassment through arrests, raids, and fines.
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Oren Ziv
January 28, 2020
Left-wingers are busing Arabs to the polls in droves — for real this time
Playing on Netanyahu’s warning about Arab citizens of Israel voting in the last elections, a grassroots campaign raises tens of thousands of shekels to bring Bedouin from unrecognized villages to the polls — not quite in droves, but mini-bus by mini-bus. On Election Day in 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu sent a video to his supporters warning…
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Oren Ziv
April 7, 2019
Lost in Occupation: How Google Maps is erasing Palestine
A new report details the ways Google Maps’ mapping process in the occupied territories serves the interests of the Israeli government, while contradicting the company’s stated commitment to human rights. When Tariq Asedih plans a trip from his village near Nablus to Ramallah, Google Maps “can’t find a way” for the 36-kilometer journey. Instead, he has to…
By
Henriette Chacar
October 4, 2018
Police arrest 10 as Israel prepares to demolish entire village
Dozens of Palestinian, international, and Israeli activists try to stop bulldozers from paving an access road that will make easier the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank. Israeli security forces arrested 10 Palestinians Wednesday as they began preparing for the demolition of an unrecognized Bedouin village in the West Bank. IDF and police forces, along…
By
Oren Ziv
July 4, 2018
Israel to demolish a Bedouin village next month, build a Jewish town in its place
Israel is planning to demolish Umm al-Hiran and expel its 1,000 residents at the end of April. After that, it will build a Jewish town on its ruins. By +972 Magazine Staff Israeli authorities handed out demolition orders to the entire Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran on Wednesday, as part of a plan to demolish and expel…
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+972 Magazine
March 22, 2018
This Bedouin village has been demolished by Israel 120 times
For the past seven years, Israeli authorities have repeatedly demolished Al-Araqib in order to expel its residents and build a forest in its place. By +972 Magazine Staff The Bedouin village of Al-Araqib was demolished by Israeli authorities for the 120th time last week. Al-Araqib is one of 35 unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev…
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+972 Magazine
October 29, 2017
Is Israel turning its Bedouin citizens into a stateless people?
Israel has been systematically revoking citizenship from its Bedouin citizens without as much as telling them. Is this a harbinger of things to come? In Israel’s relentless war against its Arab citizens, there are few things that one can still reasonably claim to be surprised by. Jack Khoury’s article in Haaretz a few weeks ago, however,…
By
Orly Noy
September 15, 2017
Bedouin village braces for a new round of demolitions
It has been half a year since Israeli police killed Yacoub Abu al-Qi’an during the demolition of his home. Now the police are back to demolish structures donated to provide shelter to his children. It has been nearly a year and a half since a police raid on the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran ended in the…
By
Yali (Yael) Marom
July 3, 2017
WATCH: How Israel discriminates against its Bedouin citizens
From suffering home demolitions to persistent demonization in the media, Israel’s Bedouin citizens are frequently the targets of the very attitudes they’re accused of. Read more: Israel Supreme Court: Bedouin have no indigenous rights Bedouin town slated for destruction is true test for Israelis
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Social TV
June 7, 2017
PHOTOS: This is what it looks like when your village is demolished
When the bulldozers turned up in Umm el-Hiran last week, they were accompanied by hundreds of armed Israeli police, who locked down the village as residents were forced to watch their homes being destroyed. By Michal Rotem “It was the first time that the police had acted so violently towards us. We knew the night…
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January 23, 2017
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