Negev Bedouins strike against Prawer plan

November 24th, 2013

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November 24, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Talab al-Sana

Al Ray Agencies | Nov 24, 2013
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Negev, AA – Arab Bedouins in the Negev desert have started an all-out strike to protest Israel’s Prawer-Begin plan to relocate the Bedouin communities in the region.

Arab Knesset member Talab al-Sana said that the Arab Bedouins in the Negev responded to a call by the Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, an umbrella organization that comprises all Arab political parties and NGOs in the region, to stage a strike in the region in protest of the plan.

“The popular action has started early through plans to stage rallies in several areas in the Negev,” al-Sana told Anadolu Agency.

“The strike came to show consensus among the Negev residents refusing the relocation and ethnic cleansing, and to ensure our legitimate right to live with pride and dignity in the lands of our fathers,” he added.

The Israeli government said the plan aims to regulate Arab communities in the Negev, but the Arab Bedouins fear that Israeli authorities would confiscate their land for the interest of Jewish settlements.

Israel classifies approximately 40 villages in the Negev Desert as “unrecognized,” arguing that the roughly 53,000 Arab Bedouins living there cannot prove their ownership of the land.

Israeli authorities have repeatedly demolished Bedouin homes in the area.

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Demolition and Eviction of Bedouin Citizens of Israel in the Naqab (Negev) – The Prawer Plan

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Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel, inhabitants of the Naqab (Negev) desert since the seventh century, are the most vulnerable community in Israel. For over 60 years, the indigenous Arab Bedouin have faced a state policy of displacement, home demolitions and dispossession of their ancestral land. Today, 70,000 Arab Bedouin citizens live in 35 villages that either predate the establishment of the State in 1948, or were created by Israeli military order in the early 1950s. The State of Israel considers the villages “unrecognized” and the inhabitants “trespassers on State land,” so it denies the citizens access to state infrastructure like water, electricity, sewage, education, health care and roads. The state deliberately withholds basic services from these villages to “encourage” the Arab Bedouin citizens to give up their ancestral land. If Israel applied the same criteria for planning and development that exist in the Jewish rural sector, all 35 unrecognized villages would be recognized where they are.

Cancel the Prawer Plan
Recognize the “unrecognized villages” and the land claims of the indigenous Arab Bedouin community
Halt home demolitions and forced evictions
Engage in meaningful dialogue with the Arab Bedouin community and the Arab political leadership to justly resolve the land claims
Invest in greater health, education, and employment opportunities for Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel

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