The Israeli authorities resumed digging and bulldozing operations on Tuesday morning in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert for the second consecutive day as a prelude to building a Jewish settlement.
According to local sources construction contractors workers and heavy machinery escorted by a large number of Israeli police forces stormed Umm al-Hiran village once again and embarked on preparing the area for the building of a settlement amid fears of intents to displace the local residents.
Meanwhile dozens of Palestinian citizens from different Negev areas started on Monday to flock to Umm al-Hiran after local officials sounded the alarm over Israeli intents to repeat the 2017 violent scenes in the village with the aim of displacing its residents and building a Jewish settlement.
“We must all go to the village to confront such plans which are a continuation of the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe). They want to displace us as they have done before” Arab member of the Knesset Youssef al-Atawna said in press remarks after he rallied with other protesters in the village on Monday.
Right-wing Jewish groups and the Israeli government have been working to demolish Umm al-Hiran and transfer its residents for long years at the pretext that the village is unrecognized although its residents were transferred there by the Israeli army in the 1950s.
