Israeli forces destroy Bedouin village for the 82nd time
by FalastinNews Staff
Israeli
forces demolished Monday morning the Bedouin village of Al-Araqib for
the 82nd time and forced its residents to leave their land.
According
to PLS48 website, dozens of Israeli policemen backed by a number of
bulldozers stormed the unrecognized village at dawn today and drove out
its residents by force.
Many of the residents were forced to take a nearby cemetery as a shelter after being left homeless, the sources added.
A state of panic spread among children and women as Israeli security forces violently and suddenly broke into the village.
The village was demolished for the first time in July 2010, before being rebuilt with metal and wood.
The
Israeli authorities classify approximately 40 villages in the Negev
desert as "unrecognized," arguing that the roughly 53,000 Palestinian
Bedouins living there cannot prove their ownership of the land.
Moreover,
the Israeli occupation bulldozers on Sunday knocked down a Palestinian
civilian home in Jerusalem's town of Abu Ghush allegedly due to
unlicensed construction.
Arab
MK Basel Ghattas said the Israeli bulldozers demolished a Palestinian
house west of Occupied Jerusalem city in such a remarkably "brutal"
manner.
The
two-story house is said to be owned by the Ibrahim family and that its
license procedures have been underway to finalize the construction.
Ghattas
called on the villagers to pitch a sit-in tent in protest at the
arbitrary demolition, which he dubbed a retaliatory move acted in
response to the natives' election of the joint Arab list in Israel's
latest polls.
Meanwhile,
dozens of Palestinian activists joined a sit-in staged in front of the
Sablaban family house in Jerusalem's Old city in protest at Israel's
mounting evacuation threats and tactics of ethnic cleansing.
Earlier,
one week ago, a bunch of Israeli vandals, escorted by police squads,
tried to break into the Palestinian family home, but the natives stepped
in and thwarted the assault.
The
family appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court to issue a decision
banning Israeli settlers from storming the house. Another hearing to
appeal an eviction decision is set to be held sometime by the end of
May.
The
family raised concerns that the Israeli fanatic settlers might re-break
into their house, calling on the human rights groups and activists to
stand by them in such dire circumstances.

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