The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) on Monday demolished all Palestinian structures in the Bedouin village of Araqib in the Negev desert for the 171st time.
Araqib’s residents said that IOA bulldozers stormed the village in the afternoon and razed all of their tents and mobile homes.
A similar demolition and forced displacement operation took place in Araqib on 31 December 2019 but the Palestinians of Araqib managed to have new makeshift homes again.
Araqib’s families live in a constant state of fear because they expect the demolition of their village at any moment.
Araqib is one of several Bedouin villages in the Negev desert which are “unrecognized” by Israel.
The repeated demolition of Araqib and other villages in the Negev falls in line with a systematic Israeli policy aimed at expelling the native population from the Negev and transferring them to government-zoned areas to pave the way for the construction and expansion of Jewish-only settlements.
