The Israeli authorities on Thursday demolished all the crude homes and tents in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Araqib in the Negev desert for the 162th 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.
In early September Israeli police forces stormed the village removed homes and detained women and children in an attempt to intimidate the local residents and force them to leave the area.
Araqib residents live in a constant state of fear because they expect the demolition of their village at any moment after they manage to rebuild their homes again.
However such Israeli arbitrary criminal and inhumane policy of demolition uprooting and displacement will only increase the residents’ resolve and adherence to their land and village even if Israel demolishes it thousands of times.
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.
