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Haaretz
April 23, 2018
They also contradict Erdan's remarks on the day of the incident, which he described as “a difficult event for our forces and the State of Israel in general. ... with the intent of killing as many policemen as possible, even before the eviction” of Bedouin residents, which was taking place that day in the village.
Haaretz
April 11, 2018
The residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the south have signed an agreement to relocate to a community adjacent to the Bedouin town of Hura, where they are to receive about 90 plots of land on which to build homes, and compensation for the ones they are leaving. Details ofÃâà...
TRT World
April 9, 2018
Like most Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, they live under Israeli civilian and military rule. Israelis accuse the Bedouin of squatting illegally despite living in the area for generations, and before Israel occupied their lands. The valley is part of what Israel calls Area C of the West Bank, and settlers wantÃâà...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
March 27, 2018
Israel has announced plans to demolish the entire Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the southern Naqab region in April. If enacted, Israel will force 350 Palestinians into homelessness. Israeli police arrived in the village on 21 March and posted eviction notices on homes and the village's mosque, statingÃâà...
Haaretz
March 25, 2018
The number of illegal structures demolished last year in Bedouin communities nearly doubled over 2016, with over 70 percent of them dismantled by the ... and only two of those were related to Bedouin in the Negev – the demolition of a mosque in Rahat and the evacuation and demolition of the village ofÃâà...
International Middle East Media Center
March 24, 2018
Israeli authorities announced this week that they would demolish the entire Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in April. ... The Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that “the planned town will not prevent [those from Bedouin villages] from living there and anyone who wishes to live in Hiran is entitled to do so.”.
International Middle East Media Center
March 6, 2018
Israeli occupation authorities, on Monday morning, have notified 16 Palestinian families that they will be evicted from their homes in Khirbat Ibiziq village, east of Tubas, under the pretext that the Israeli army will conduct military drills in the area. According to the official over the Jordan Valley file in TubasÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
March 5, 2018
Arab residents of the Bedouin village of Umm Al-Hiran, located in Wadi Atir area of the Negev desert, received Israeli demolition orders yesterday, Arab48 reported yesterday. The website said that the demolition orders were issued for the unlicensed houses in the village, which are not recognised by theÃâà...
International Middle East Media Center
March 4, 2018
Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel filed a motion for contempt of court yesterday, 28 February 2018, against Israeli authorities for twice violating court decisions to provide school buses for Bedouin preschool children from villages in the southern Naqab (Negev) desert region.
TheTower.org
February 27, 2018
At least once a week, a member of the Iota team travels to Hura, a Bedouin village in southern Israel, to deliver raw materials to the employed women. Once complete, the finished products are transported back to Tel Aviv, each piece bearing a label signed by the woman who made it. Currently Iota employsÃâà...
ISRAEL21c
February 25, 2018
Using the universal language of crochet, Israeli firm Iota empowers out-of-work women to support themselves with a work-from-home job. By Rebecca .... At least once a week, a member of the Iota team travels to Hura, a Bedouin village in southern Israel, to deliver raw materials to the employed women.
Al-Monitor
February 25, 2018
Aalia Abu Rabia from the Negev Bedouin village of Darijat interprets it to mean, “Women will always be inferior to men.” Abu Rabia is one of the 24 strong and educated Bedouin women who are trying to change this opinion. She and her colleagues completed a six-month program last December that aimsÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
February 24, 2018
Bedouin children stand on the rubble of two classrooms destroyed by the Israeli Army in the village of Abu Nuwar in the West Bank, on February 4. (AP) ... Once nomads, tens of thousands of Bedouins live in villages across the desert region of southern Israel and in the West Bank. Those living in Israel haveÃâà...
Haaretz
February 7, 2018
The Justice Ministry department for investigating police misconduct does not think the incident in which a resident of the unrecognized Bedouin Negev village of Umm al-Hiran, Yakub Abu al-Kiyan, ran over and killed a police officer in January 2017 was a terrorist attack, says a source in law enforcementÃâà...
The National
February 6, 2018
What lies under the village soil, however, could be the undoing of the thousands of Bedouin Arabs who live here. The land, in ... Throughout the Negev, Israeli policy is to use the threat and practice of home demolitions to move the Bedouin from their unrecognised villages into crowded townships. In 2009Ãâà...
Socialist Worker Online
December 31, 1999
The Bedouin inhabitants of Umm al-Khair face a constant effort by Israel to wipe the Palestinian village off the map--but they refuse to surrender, writes ... the Bedouins to the Israeli Civil Administration, the Israeli governing body in the West Bank, which does everything from expedite the demolition of villageÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
December 31, 1999
The unrecognised Bedouin villages were established in the Negev soon after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war following the creation of the State of Israel. Right groups say that the demolition of unrecognised Bedouin villages is a central Israeli policyaimed at removing the indigenous Palestinian population fromÃâà...
Palestine News Network
December 31, 1999
According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), more than half of the approximately 160,000 Bedouins in the Negev reside in unrecognised villages. The unrecognised Bedouin villages were established in the Negev soon after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war following the creation of the State ofÃâà...
Mintpress News
December 31, 1999
Out of a total population of 200,000, some 95,000 Bedouin live in 35 communities that are referred to as the “unrecognized” towns and villages. ... Israeli authorities were reportedly planning to destroy a mosque in the village because it was built without a permit, which Bedouins cannot obtain in theirÃâà...
