Posts Tagged ‘bedouin’

The slow ethnic cleansing of Ein Samiya’s Bedouin community

On Monday, May 22, at least 16 Palestinian families (almost 170 people) were forcibly expelled from their homes near the Ein Samiya spring and the Palestinian village of Kufr Malek, 27 kilometers northeast of Ramallah.  The spring is wedged between Kufr Malek and the illegal Jewish-only colony of Kohav HaShahar and the nearby illegal outpost […]

Israel demolishes Palestine Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb for 212th time

The Israeli Forces demolished, on Tuesday, the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb, in the Negev region in southern Israel, for the 212th time, Anadolu News Agency reported, citing local sources. Eyewitnesses said Israeli bulldozers, under police protection, stormed the village and forced the villagers out of their tin houses and tents, before demolishing them for […]

Is there Truth to the Bedouin Legend of the Great River in the Desert?

The Bedouin of the southern Arabian desert have a legend about a great river in the west, and an eighth century Arabic poem talks of wild cows living in the Empty Quarter. Can it be true? The Empty Quarter, also known as the Rub al-Khali, is the largest sand desert in the world, covering an […]

3 teens shot in Bedouin town of Rahat; 2 of them in critical, serious condition

Three young teens were shot and injured overnight Wednesday in the Bedouin city of Ramat, suffering critical, serious, and moderate injuries. Police said the teens, aged 13-14, were shot in the 21st Neighborhood of the southern city. Initially, cops were alerted that two people had been shot and officers who arrived on the scene found […]

Israel charges Bedouin with Gaza ties with spying for Hamas

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With mere 2% vaccinated, unrecognized Bedouin villages are an Israeli blind spot

Deep in the Negev desert, Bedouin residents of a village deemed illegal by the government say more houses have been demolished than people vaccinated, despite Israel’s world-beating coronavirus inoculation drive. “No one is vaccinated here,” said Adnan al-Abari, a maintenance worker at the school in Tel Arad. Israel is a global leader in coronavirus vaccinations […]

Kids at Israeli Bedouin school are learning how to spend the day without water

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Israel’s Bedouin voters consider what was once unthinkable: cooperating with Netanyahu

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Ex-top investigator alleges prosecution coverup in police killing of Bedouin man

The former head of the Israel’s police internal affairs unit has reportedly alleged that the State Prosecution tried to bury an investigation into the fatal police shooting of a Bedouin man in 2017 in an attempt to protect the image of law enforcement agencies. The head of the Police Internal Investigations Department at the time […]

Court reduces sum Bedouin must pay Israel for demolition of their unrecognized village

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Israel razes Bedouin campsite in largest West Bank demolition in a decade

Israeli bulldozers flanked by soldiers demolished a small Bedouin village in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank on Tuesday morning, rendering around 73 Palestinians — including 41 children — homeless, according to the United Nations. International observers visited Khirbet Humsa, close to the West Bank city of Tubas, on Wednesday, finding destroyed tents, smashed […]

Government asks High Court for more time to prepare razing of Bedouin village

The state told the High Court of Justice on Monday that it will not raze the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the southern West Bank in the next several months and asked to be granted more time to iron out details of how the removal will be implemented. The request in the name of […]

This Bedouin poet began writing at 46. Her feminist work is now celebrated globally

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Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Bedouin Village for 177th Time (VIDEO)

Source August 27, 2020 Israeli forces habitually destroy al-Araqeeb village. (Photo: via Twitter) The Israeli authorities today demolished the Palestinian Bedouin village of al-Araqeeb, in the Naqab desert, for the 177th time since 2000 and for the sixth time this year, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israeli police broke into the village and […]

New Report Reveals Israel Demolishes Over 2,000 Palestinian Bedouin Homes per Year

August 03rd, 2020 Source By Miko Peled A report published in June of 2020 states that in 2017, 2018 and 2019, the state of Israel demolished over two thousand homes of Palestinian citizens of Israel per year in the Naqab region alone. The report was put together by an Israeli Non-Governmental agency called, “The Negev Coexistence Forum […]

Israeli court approves destruction of Bedouin village, despite Congressional and EU protest

Khan al-Ahmar, occupied West Bank Children laugh and play in the small Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, located east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, jumping on tin sheets laid out on the ground and throwing any object they retrieve from the dirt at one another. The children’s loud giggling and the wide smiles […]

Israel Destroys the Homes and History of Palestine’s Indigenous Bedouin

BIR-AS-SABA’, NAQAB (Analysis) — The Naqab region is assumed to be an integral part of the apartheid state of Israel. However, like all other parts of historic Palestine, it was taken by force and occupied since 1948, when the Zionist state was established. For the last seven decades its indigenous people, the Palestinian Bedouin who […]

Israel expropriates Bedouin village, then sentences 68-yo sheikh to 10 months in prison for trespassing – on his own land

     The Bedouin village of Al Araqib in the southern Negev has been demolished for well over 100 times. Its ethnic cleansing follows a similar pattern and logic to that of other Bedouin villages such as Umm Al Hiran, which saw violent ethnic cleansing operations this year, also involving extrajudicial execution of an Israeli Bedouin […]

Israeli court sentences 68-year-old Bedouin citizen to 10 months in prison – for trespassing his own land

The Bedouin village of Al Araqib in the southern Negev has been demolished for well over 100 times. Its ethnic cleansing follows a similar pattern and logic to that of other Bedouin villages such as Umm Al Hiran, which saw violent ethnic cleansing operations this year, also involving extrajudicial execution of an Israeli Bedouin citizen. […]

Bedouin community uses Christmas celebration to challenge Israeli land grab

A dozen Palestinian Bedouin children gather on top of Pope Mountain and prepare for the first ever Christmas tree lighting in the area. The mountain echoes with the beats of the famous song “Mawtinee” (Homeland) as the children, the community head council, the Archbishop Hanna Atallah, Fr. Jamal Khader and other Palestinian officials like Walid Assaf […]

Video: Bedouin community resists imminent house demolitions and Israel’s E1 project

The residents of Jabal Al-Baba Bedouin community, east of Occupied Jerusalem held a rally a week after receiving an eviction notice from the Israeli authorities. The protest, in cooperation with the Avazz organisation and international activists aimed to send the message they are refusing Israeli orders and are determined to remain on their land. The […]

Israeli occupation demolishes Palestinian Bedouin village for 119th time

Israeli occupation forces demolished Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqib in Al-Naqab on Tuesday for 119th time since 2010. Aziz al-Turi, a local activist said that the Israeli bulldozers accompanied by Israeli police forces raided the village and demolished its makeshift homes “without any consideration for their residents, and despite of the bad weather conditions.” “The […]

Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Bedouin Village for 119th Time

israel rendering Bedouin stateless

Israel rendering Bedouin stateless Bedouin women react to the destruction of houses on January 18, 2017 in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, which is not recognized by the Israeli government, near Beersheba. Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP How Israeli citizens are becoming stateless Palestinian lawmakers, residents say an Israeli policy rendering thousands of Bedouins stateless […]

‘Honor killing’: Bedouin woman ‘murdered by relatives,’ body burned in Israel

Hanan al-Bahiri went missing on May 3 after speaking on the phone to her mother on the way home in the town of Lakiya. Her mother, Dalal al-Bahiri, contacted the police, prompting a search. The woman indicated her suspicion of Hanan’s uncle and two other relatives, Haaretz reports. The victim’s uncle, Younis al-Bahiri, 45, his […]

Israel blocks Bedouin road, prevents 100 kids from school

Israeli occupation has installed guardrail on Israeli highway, isolating Palestinian Bedouin community, preventing around 100 children from schools. A report issued by the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah) said that the Israeli occupation effectively sealed off Umm Bidoun, a Palestinian Bedouin community in Al-Naqab, by blocking off the only dirt road […]

‘We shall remain’: Bedouin of Jabal al-Baba face an uphill battle to keep their land

Forty-two-year-old Atallah Mazara’a from the Jahalin Bedouin tribe recalls a time when residents were free to move, unhindered by concrete walls and unobtainable permits. “Life was so simple before the [separation barrier] because you could leave for vacation, for weddings; you could take your car and go to Jerusalem,” Mazara’a said. “You could pray Maghrib [prayer just after […]

Lessons on living and dying from a man who has seen 12,000 deaths

     What Can We Learn from the Dying? Rooted in the hearts of many Hindus is the belief that if you breathe your last in Kashi (Varanasi) you attain what is popularly known as ‘Kashi Labh’ or ‘the fruit of Kashi’—moksh or “release from the cycle of rebirth impelled by the law of karma”. Kashi […]

Before Nightclub Shooting, FBI Pursued Questionable Florida “Terror” Suspects

While it’s unclear whether gunman Omar Mateen’s inspiration was hatred of gays, the Islamic State, or something else, attackers like him are the intended targets of the FBI’s post-9/11 prevention program. Federal law enforcement’s top priority today is to stop the attacker of tomorrow. But Mateen’s mass shooting is an example of how […]

Video: #BDS is “democracy in action”

Video: BDS is “democracy in action” On Monday I spoke with Sharmini Peries of The Real News about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. Signed in the presence of Israeli government and Israel lobby officials on Sunday, the measure orders New York bureaucrats to create a blacklist […]

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